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Post by ninathedog on Jun 16, 2011 20:29:27 GMT 4
Ni'lin village—Struggle Against The Apartheid Wall/ 10.06.2011 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy_OGqLow20Uploaded by Nilinvillage on Jun 12, 2011
www.nilin-village.org/
The weekly Friday demonstration in Ni'lin set off with a prayer as always, with a dozens of Ni'lin villagers participating along with a number of Israeli and international peace activists. Upon arrival at the Apartheid-Annexation Wall, some demonstrators tried to open a gate in it in order to reach their fields, however, this resulted in four protesters being severely distressed from gas inhalation fired by the Occupation Forces and another injured in the hand after being struck with a tear gas projectile.
In the afternoon, demonstrators returned to the quarry built illegally by Israel near Nil'in -- at last week's demonstration an Israeli private security guard fired live bullets at the nonviolent protesters.
In another demonstration the same day which was organized by the Ni'lin and Budrus popular committees, residents from the adjacent village of Shuqba, Israelis, internationals and Ni'lin villagers protested against the quarry which is eating away at the village's land. Approximately 150 protesters approached the Natuf quarry, and dismantled the barbed wire protecting it. In retaliation, occupation soldiers and border police fired tear gas canisters resulting in large fires that spread quickly on the dry land surrounding the quarry and distress to the protesters from tear gas inhalation. Unlike last week's protest, when one demonstrator was injured from a ricochet from a live round fired by the private security guard, there were no injuries or arrests.Private Israeli guard opened live fire on
peacefully protesters/04.06.2011
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Uploaded by Nilinvillage on Jun 4, 2011
Filmed by: saeed amireh
Contact: saeedima91@gmail.com
www.nilin-village.org/2011/06/04/one-protester-struck-in-the-head-by-shrapnel-of-live-bullets-during-a-peaceful-protest-against-the-israeli-illegal-quarry-in-the-west-bank-near-the-village-of-shukba-today04-06-2011/
Private Israeli guard opened live fire on protesters marching on an illegal quarry near Shuqba village in the west bank today 04.06.2011.
Today one protester struck in the head by shrapnel of live bullets during a peaceful protest against the Israeli illegal quarry in the west bank near the village of Shukba. The march was organized by the Ni'lin and Budrus popular committees. The demonstration began at 12:00 pm
And joint with dozens of Palestinians together with a number of Israeli peace activists, moved toward the illegal quarry inorder to stop it from confiscating more lands from the lands of Ni'lin town.Qibya,Shukba,and Shebteen.
Before arrival of the demonstrators to the scene, One Israeli security guard opend live fire on the peacefully protesters directly which led to the injury of one demonstrator in the head by shrapnel of live bullets, then he was sent to the hospital by the ambulance directly to get the necessary treatment.
Also, after a few time , three Israeli military jeeps came and started firing at the demonstrators with tear gas canister which led to a dozens suffers from suffocation as a result of inhaling the poison gas and many olive trees were burned too.
Briefly background:
The illegal quarry is an Israeli stones grinder owned by an Israeli commander who was working in the Israeli police service. It confiscated thousands of Acres from the Palestinian lands,and it is still expanding in the northern side of ni'lin town and continue the confiscation of more lands from it and the near villages.
.......... The Palestinian Village of Ni’lin
Background information and reference data29 May 2008
The Palestine MonitorNi’lin village is located in the West Bank, 26 km to the west of Ramallah city. It lies at the centre of seven other villages: Al Midya, Qibya, Shuqba, Shabtin, Budrus, Deir Qaddis, and Kharbatha Bani Harith. Historically, Ni’lin served as the centre of education, health, economic and public services for the surrounding villages. Ni’lin Secondary School is the top school in the area, and hosts students from several other villages. The village also has a small, basically equipped hospital, in addition to a number of factories that produce juice, cola, and rubber. LandUntil 1948, Ni’lin villagers owned 58,000 dunums (580 hectares: 1 dunum = 0.01 hectares) of land, which stretched as far as Ramle and Lod, cities that now lie inside Israel. After the Nakba of 1948, 40,000 dunums of this land was annexed to the newly created Israeli state. After the occupation of the West Bank in 1967, the illegal settlements of Kiryat Sefer, Mattityahu and Maccabim were built on village lands. In addition, new roads were created for the ever-expanding settlements of Nili and Na’ale. Together, these settlements and their associated infrastructure ate up another 8,000 dunums of Ni’lin’s land. Moreover, an Israeli military base and scores of military checkpoints were also set up in the area.  Ni’lin situation map
ARIJThese confiscations left Ni’lin with just 10,000 of its original 58,000 dunums of land. Yet construction of the Wall on the western side of the village, and a military base on the southern side will strip Ni’lin of a further 2,500 dunums of land. In addition to this, the closure of the main entrance to the village to replace it with a tunnel running under the segregated settler-only road will involve the confiscation of a further 200 dunums. This will effectively turn Ni’lin into a prison, where the Israeli military will have the power to open and close the tunnel to the village indiscriminately and at whim. Finally, this will leave the village with just 7,300 dunums, including the land on which the houses are built. The land to be confiscated includes prime agricultural land; hundreds of the olives trees will be lost. Population In 1948 there were 2,500 inhabitants living in Ni’lin. Today, 60 years later, there are some 5,000 inhabitants. Under normal growth rates, the population should be five times higher. But continuous land confiscations and resulting poverty and unemployment, together with closures, have led people to leave the village in search of better work opportunities. ArchaeologySeveral archaeological sites can be found in Ni’lin dating back to the Canaanite period, including the Al-Natof site that is thousands of years old, the Zebda site, the Shuqba caves, as well as castles and buildings that are five times older than the Israeli occupation. These sites are global cultural heritage, yet Israel is either destroying them day after day by building the Wall, or seeking to take control of these archaeological sites. Water resourcesThe private Israeli water company ‘Mekorot’ has controlled water resources in the West Ramallah district under authorisation from the Israeli military since 1967, effectively stealing the water from Palestinians at selling it back to them at inflated prices. Additional water to Ni’lin and the surrounding villages is supplied by a well and springs located in Shabtin village. Yet even the amount of water that they can draw from these sources is controlled by the Israeli military. Meanwhile, settlers living in the surrounding settlements can access four times more water than Palestinians, and pay five times less for it than the Palestinian owners of the water sources. Villagers often face acute water shortages in the summer time because Israel cuts water supplies to the villages, forcing villagers to purchase tanks of water at high cost. Bypass roadsOver the years, hundreds of dunums of Ni’lin’s land has been classified as Area C by the Israeli military, which subsequently allowed the construction of bypass Road 446 on these lands. The official pretext used to justify this confiscation and construction was that these roads would connect Ni’lin with the surrounding villages. Yet Palestinians have been forbidden from using these roads since 2003. Instead, Road 446 connects three settlements in the area with each other. Now, Israel is planning to connect these settlements with Tel Aviv by constructing yet another bypass road on the northern side of the village, which will mean that even more land from the villages of Ni’lin, Qibya and Budrus will be lost. Construction of this new road will also isolate the surrounding villages from each other; this new Israeli plan will isolate the nine western villages into three ghettos and jails. Settlements Following Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1967, the successive Israeli Governments adopted a policy of land confiscation for the various Israeli purposes that were mostly exemplified in the establishment of settlements, bypass roads and military bases. Accordingly, the village of Ni’lin witnessed the confiscation of its lands for the establishment of five Israeli settlements that stand on 1963 dunums, 13.3% of the village’s total land area. The settlements are a home to more than 40,000 Israeli settlers as illustrated in the table below: Classification of Lands in Ni’lin village according to Oslo II Agreement of 1995 D = dunumsSource: ARIJ GIS UNIT 2007The village also suffers from the flow of wastewater from Israeli settlements such as Hashmon’im and the settlements inside the Green Line into its land. The flood of wastewater intersects with Ad Doyeh water flow that separates the village of Ni’lin from the village of Al Midya (South of Ni’lin). The TunnelThe Israeli army has informed the village about a new tunnel that it is planning to build at the entrance to Ni’lin on the western side of the village. Some 150 dunums of the village’s land will be confiscated for this purpose. The current entrance to the village will be closed, and will be replaced by the tunnel to be built under Road 446. The first aim of the tunnel is to control the life of Ni’lin’s 5,000 inhabitants and to cut them off from their networks in the surrounding villages, and Ramallah city. It will be built on some of the village’s best agricultural land, and will see the destruction of hundreds of olive trees that serve as a key livelihood for the local people. The direction of the tunnel will come from west to east, dividing the village into two parts: upper and lower Ni’lin. One direction will isolate 1,000 inhabitants living in the upper area, and will prevent then from accessing the lower area. This will mean that they will be cut off from health, education and other services in the upper part, as well as from social and kinship networks. Their movement will depend on the whim of Israeli soldiers who will open the gate to upper Ni’lin for 45 minutes each day, like in Jayyous and other West Bank villages for example. The second aim of the gate is to destroy the village’s economy, and the third aim is to isolate farmers from their agricultural land. HousingSince 1967, the Israeli military has committed daily human rights violations against Palestinians: killing, injuring and arresting them, stealing land etc. These violations also include house demolitions under the pretext that the owners do not hold the necessary building permits, despite the fact that they are built inside the West Bank. The Israeli army has destroyed five houses in the surrounding villages in the past few years. Recently, the Israeli army informed 20 families in Almed that their houses will be demolished because they are built without permits, again, in spite of the fact that they are built inside the West Bank. Humanitarian disaster, poverty and unemploymentThe rate of unemployment has risen rapidly in the last few years as a direct result of land confiscation, closures and siege. Now, more than 80% of the villagers depend on wage labour in Israeli workshops and factories. The current closure policy of Israel, halt on work permits in Israel for Palestinians, the construction of the Wall, has lead to an unemployment rate of approximately 60% (there are no official statistics yet). When the Wall will be finished, it will be even harder for most villagers to reach their work in Israel, and this number will be even higher. Subsequently, because the agricultural land, the first income alternative for the village, has been and still is being confiscated for the benefits of the surrounding settlements, the people of Nilin and surrounding villages are left with no means to ensure an income. This has turned the village from a breadbasket into a hungry population, has undermined the villagers’ right to live a dignified life, and has prevented them from fulfilling other minimum human rights enshrined in international law.
For more information on Ni’ilin, contact:
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Post by ninathedog on Jun 17, 2011 17:46:25 GMT 4
[OccupationNews] Digest Number 1413
Thu Jun 16, 2011 7:31 pm (PDT)
***Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles*
*News*
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*International Middle East Media Center* <http://imemc. org/>
*Palestinian Worker Seriously Wounded After Being stabbed By Israeli
Assailant* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61467>
IMEMC - Thursday June 16, 2011 - 17:52, A Palestinian worker was
seriously injured on Thursday after being attacked and stabbed by an
Israeli man in Netanya, north of the country.
*Freedom Flotilla 2 To Sail Irrespective Of IHH Participation, Claims
Organisers* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61465>
IMEMC - Thursday June 16, 2011 - 16:06, The organizers of the "Freedom
Flotilla 2" have said they intend to sail irrespective of Turkish
organization IHH's participation, according to Haaretz.
*Israeli Arms Companies Report $7.2 Billion In Exports for 2010*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61464>
IMEMC - Thursday June 16, 2011 - 15:04, JPost reports that Israeli
military companies sold a total of $7.2 billion worth of military
hardware abroad and a further $2.4 billion to the IDF in 2010, according
to the Israeli Defense Ministry.
*Hamas Detain Fatah Official In Gaza* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61463>
IMEMC - Thursday June 16, 2011 - 14:39, Fatah have complained that one
of its officials in Gaza, Abu A'itah, was detained in Gaza by Hamas
security forces, according to Maan.
*Jordan's King Abdullah Pessimistic About Peace Talks. Netanyahu Claims
Conflict Is Unsolvable.* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61462>
IMEMC - Thursday June 16, 2011 - 12:50, Jordan's King Abdullah has
stated in an interview with the Washington Post that he is pessimistic
that there will be progress on Israeli Palestinian peace talks in 2011.
*Army Kidnaps Palestinian Legislator In Hebron*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61461>
IMEMC - Thursday June 16, 2011 - 12:16, Israeli soldiers kidnapped on
Thursday at dawn legislator Dr. Samir Al Qadi, 55, after breaking into
his home in Surif town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron,
and took him to an unknown destination.
*Settlers Torch Olive Orchards Near Ramallah*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61460>
IMEMC - Thursday June 16, 2011 - 11:24, A number of armed extremist
Israeli settlers torched on Wednesday at night dozens of olive trees
that belong to villagers of Bil'in village, near the central West Bank
city of Ramallah. The trees are located in Palestinian orchards isolated
behind the Annexation Wall.
*Limited Numbers Of Cars, Food and Construction Materials To Be Allowed
Into Gaza Thursday* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61459>
IMEMC - Thursday June 16, 2011 - 10:57, The Israeli Authorities decided
to partially open the Kerem Shalom Crossing (Karem Abu Salem) on
Thursday in order to allow into the Gaza Strip a limited number of cars,
food supplies, and construction materials used by the by the United
Nations Work and Relief Agency (UNRWA), and other internationally- funded
projects.
*Settler Who Killed Palestinian Youth Apprehended*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61458>
IMEMC - Thursday June 16, 2011 - 10:25, The undercover forces of the
Israeli Police stated that one of its units managed to apprehend an
Israeli settler who shot and killed a Palestinian youth in January this
year.
*Detainees Torch Mattresses In Protest To Detaining Mother*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 61456>
IMEMC - Thursday June 16, 2011 - 06:27, Palestinian political detainees
at the Israeli Eshil detention center torched their mattresses in
protest to detaining a mother of one of them under the pretext of
carrying "unpermitted luggage" for her detained son.
*Ma'an News* <http://maannews. net/en/>
*Israeli court dismisses petition to re-open Hebron road*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397287>
6/17/2011 - HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Israel's High Court threw out a petition
seeking the re-opening of a market street in Hebron's city center, which
would have overturned 21 military orders mandating the closure of the
area for "security reasons."Judge Dorit Beinisch presided over the case,
which was submitted in 2004, and....
*PA official: Settlers burn farmland near Nablus*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397365>
6/16/2011 - NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian
farmland south of the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, a
Palestinian official said. Ghassan Doughlas, a Palestinian Authority
official who monitors settlement affairs in the northern West Bank, said
the incident occurrednear the illegal settlement of Itamar, south of
Nablus. The settlers burned....
*Another Hamas leader detained by Israeli forces*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397204>
6/17/2011 - HEBRON (Ma'an) --Samir Al-Qadi, elected Palestinian
legislator with the Hamas bloc, was taken from his home during a
military raid on Thursday morning. The official, who had been detained
and kept under administrative detention without charge from 2006-2009,
was taken from his home in the village of Surif, northwest of Hebron in....
*Mavi Marmara may skip next Gaza mission*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397401>
6/17/2011 - ANKARA (AFP) -- The Turkish ship that became famous after it
was raided by Israeli troops while en route to Gaza may not join an
upcoming aid mission to the Palestinian territory, a mission organizer
said on Thursday. Israeli marines killed nine Turkish activists in May
2010 when they stormed the Mavi Marmara in international waters....
*Settlers harass, stone Hebron residents*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=396873>
6/16/2011 - HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers threw stones on homes in
the area of the closed down Ash-Shuhada Street on Tuesday night,
terrorizing families in the neighborhood. The street, closed by military
order in the 1990s, is a local flashpoint, divided in the center with
half designated by the military for exclusively settler use, and....
*Palestinians say gas canisters set fire to village land*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397160>
6/16/2011 - RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces fired tear gas canisters
that started a fire Wednesday and burned acres of olive trees in the
occupied West Bank, witnesses said. Soldiers also fired stun grenades
toward fields near the village of Bil'in, near Ramallah, locals said.
Villagers tried to put off the fires, but soldiers....
*Miles of Smiles convoy en route to Gaza cargo delivery*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397212>
6/16/2011 - EL-ARISH, Egypt (Ma'an) -- Preparations to receive the
humanitarian aid ship Miles of Smiles have been completed, head of the
Red Crescent society in the Egyptian Sinai told Ma'an on Thursday. The
ship is set to arrive in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria on
Friday, after leaving from Venice, the RC....
*Factions say 'no way' to settler visits in Nablus*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397226>
6/17/2011 - NABLUS (Ma'an) -- A committee in Nablus have said they
"refuse and condemn" Palestinian Authority dialogue with settler groups
who wish to visit Joseph's Tomb, a holy site in the city where biblical
figure Joseph is thought to be buried. In a statement released on
Thursday, the Factional Coordination Committee, including six....
*Overnight detentions bring town total to 10 in June*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397120>
6/16/2011 - QALQILIYA (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces detained two from the
town of Azzun, east of Qalqiliya, during raids overnight, local sources
told Ma'an. Locals say the detentions are just the latest in a string if
night raids targeting residents, and have seen ten of Azzun's men and
teenagers detained since the....
*Free speech advocates meet UN commissioner*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397359>
6/16/2011 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The coalition to defend freedom of
opinion and expression met Thursday with Matthias Behnke, head of the
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in
Palestine. The meeting in Ramallah was held to discuss options for
future cooperation between OHCHR and the coalition, a statement from the
Palestinian. ... Related:Palestinian Center for Development and Media
Freedoms (MADA) <http://www.madacent er.org/madaeng/>
*Civil defense responder 'arrested' near Nablus*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397374>
6/16/2011 - NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Palestinians said Thursday that Israel's
army arrested a civil defense worker after a traffic accident in the
West Bank. Mus'ab Abed Al-Qader Al-Dumeidi, 30, was en route to an
accident in Huwwara, a Palestinian village near Nablus, witnesses said.
Al-Dumeidi was taken to an interrogation center in....
*Settler arrested for killing Palestinian*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397174>
6/16/2011 - TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces on Wednesday
arrested an Israeli settler for the murder of a Palestinian man near
Nablus nearly five months ago, Israel's daily news site Ynet reported.
According to the report, Israeli police arrested a man residing in
Jerusalem, who admitted to shooting an Iraq Burin shepherd....
*Fatah says party spokesman detained in Gaza*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=396942>
6/16/2011 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Fatah officials in the West Bank said
Wednesday that the party's spokesman in the Gaza Strip was detained by
Hamas government security forces, and called the detention a violation
of the conciliation agreement between the factions. Fayez Abu A'itah's
detention "harms the basic rights of....
*Medications to arrive in Gaza Monday, PA says*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397305>
6/16/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Ten truckloads of medicine will enter
the Gaza Strip on Sunday, officials in the coastal enclave told Ma'an on
Thursday. Nazmi Muhanna, head of the crossings committee in Gaza, said
that instructions from President Mahmoud Abbas were handed down and
necessary arrangements with Israel's Civil Administration. ...
*Limited supplies enter Gaza via Israel crossing*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397141>
6/16/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Palestinian officials were notified
Thursday morning that 320-330 truckloads of goods would be permitted to
enter the Gaza Strip. Palestinian liaison official Raed Fattouh said he
was informed that the goods would include 20 motor vehicles, three loads
of equipment for the Energy Authority, ten loads of iron pipes....
*PETA urges rabbis to overturn dog's death sentence*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397372>
6/17/2011 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- A leading US animal rights organization
is urging rabbinical authorities in Jerusalem to overturn a "death
sentence" by stoning of a dog alleged to be a reincarnated lawyer. The
sentence stems from the suspicion that the spirit of a secular lawyer,
said to have insulted the court's judges decades....
*Archbishop comments on Christians criticized*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397067>
6/16/2011 - LONDON (Ma'an) -- The Palestine Solidarity Campaign issued a
statement Wednesday criticizing the Archbishop of Canterbury calling
Bethlehem Christians a "marginalized minority."The Archbishop told the
BBC that the Arab Spring had led to a "very anxious time" for Christians
in the Middle East. He noted an increase in attacks against Christian
populations in....
*Barghouti arrives in Gaza to meet factions*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397352>
6/17/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Palestinian lawmaker Mustafa Barghouti
arrived in Gaza late Thursday to meet with factions on ways to overcome
obstacles to a Palestinian reconciliation agreement. Barghouti said his
visit to Gaza "is to communicate with the Palestinians and take a
firsthand look at all the issues and to improve the situation for....
*UNRWA summer camps kick off in Gaza*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397273>
6/17/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Children in Gaza attending UNRWA summer
camps this year will attempt to break four world records in July, in an
effort to top the two records smashed the year before. An Olympic-style
torch relay through the Gaza Strip kicked off the summer camps, known as
the UNRWA Summer Games, which....
*Police: 3 dead in Israel blast*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397409>
6/17/2011 - JERUSALEM (AFP) -- A gas explosion in the Israeli town of
Netanya, north of Tel Aviv, killed at least three people and injured
others overnight Thursday, an Israeli police spokesman said." An
explosion occurred in a four-storey building in Netanya, killing at
least three people and injuring others," Micky Rosenfeld said." We have
clearly determined after....
*Bedouins in Egypt demanding equal citizenship rights*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397381>
6/16/2011 - SINAI DESERT (IRIN) -- Moussa Al Dalah, a 35-year-old tribal
leader from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, knew it would be a risky step to
try and take his employer to court over alleged discrimination: He could
easily end up in prison."I had to tell the employer that the Bedouins
won't be....
*Palestinian worker stabbed in northern Israel*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397383>
6/16/2011 - NABLUS (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian worker suffered injuries
Thursday after being stabbed in northern Israel, officials and relatives
said. Ruslan Daoud, 37, was stabbed several times in the chest and back
on his way out of a store in Netanya, his brother said. Ghaleb Daoud
told Ma'an that Ruslan was transferred to....
*Spain wants Mideast talks to resume this year*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397139>
6/17/2011 - MADRID, Spain (AFP) -- Spain supports a two-state solution
and wants the Israelis and Palestinians to resume peace talks this year,
the country's foreign ministry said Wednesday. Spanish Foreign Minister
Trinidad Jimenez met with her Palestinian counterpart Riyad Al-Malki on
Wednesday, during an official visit which ends on Friday. Jimenez
"reiterated Spain's....
*Analysis: And what about statehood?*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397126>
6/16/2011 - Daoud Kuttab - The Palestinian strategy to achieve statehood
is making significance progress among certain international political
circles, but it is still lacking the necessary coordination and cohesion
to bear the desired results. President Mahmoud Abbas and his West Bank
Prime Minister Salam Fayyad have succeeded in detonating the familiar
anti-Palestinian arsenal that Israel's....
*Egypt says would-be migrants to Israel thwarted*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397148>
6/16/2011 - El-ARISH, Egypt (Ma'an) -- Egyptian security forces said
officers thwarted the attempt of African migrants to enter Israel from
Egypt on Thursday morning. Border guards detained 21 Sudanese nationals
officials said were attempting to illegally enter Israel for work. Upon
questioning, security officials said, the men said they had each paid
$1,000 to be....
*Egypt bans Mubarak daughters-in- law from travel*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397398>
6/16/2011 - CAIRO (AFP) -- The Egyptian justice ministry's fraud unit on
Thursday slapped a travel ban on ousted president Hosni Mubarak's two
daughters-in- law and their children, a judicial official told AFP. Assem
al-Gohari, who heads the Illicit Gains Authority, ordered the ban on
Heidi Rasekh and Khadiga al-Gammal, the wives of Mubarak'....
*Activist: Syrian tanks swoop on another town*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397400>
6/16/2011 - DAMASCUS (AFP) -- Tanks swooped on another northern town
Thursday as Syria's army pressed its crackdown on dissent and the United
States condemned the "outrageous use of violence" to quell a popular
uprising. And as the European Union began work to toughen sanctions
against Syria, the presidents of Russia and China said they opposed....
*French minister urges patience in Lebanon kidnapping case*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397402>
6/16/2011 - TALLINN (AFP) -- France is committed to helping Estonia free
its seven citizens kidnapped in Lebanon but patience is required to
solve the sensitive case, France's European affairs minister said
Thursday in Tallinn." France as the country that knows Lebanon better
than any other country in Europe has assisted and is assisting Estonia
with....
*Palestine Note* <http://palestinenot e.com/cs/>
*Settler arrested for killing Palestinian*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/06/16/ settler-arrested -for-killing- palestinian. aspx>
Palestine Note 16 Jun 2011 - Ma'an- Israeli forces on Wednesday arrested
an Israeli settler for the murder of a Palestinian man near Nablus
nearly five months ago, Israel's daily news site Ynet reported.
According to the report, Israeli police arrested a man residing in
Jerusalem,.. .
*Gaza suffers gas shortage after pump breaks at crossing*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/06/16/ gaza-suffers- gas-shortage- after-pump- breaks-at- crossing. aspx>
Palestine Note 16 Jun 2011 - Ma'an- The Gaza Strip has been suffering
from shortages of domestic-use gas for three days due to a technical
fault in the gas pump at the Kerem Shalom crossing. Mahmoud Ash-Shawwa,
head of the association of gas station owners, said...
*Arab kings: How to keep your crown*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/06/16/ arab-kings- how-to-keep- your-crown. aspx>
Palestine Note 16 Jun 2011 - Economist- There are two kinds of Arab
sovereign: those who rule from behind a veil of constitutional niceties
and those who dispense with the veils. Both are meeting the challenges
of the Arab spring better than the region's fallen or...
*Detaining Palestinian Children*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ topnews/archive/ 2011/06/16/ detaining- palestinian- children. aspx>
Palestine Note 16 Jun 2011 - Lawyer Gerard Horton from Defence for
Children International describes a pattern of abuse Gerard Horton - Last
month, a 13-year-old boy from a small village in the occupied West Bank
woke up to the sound of loud banging on the...
*Israel's Systematic Ill Treatment and Punishment of Palestinian
Children*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ blogs/archive/ 2011/06/16/ israel-s- systematic- ill-treatment- and-punishment- of-palestinian- children. aspx>
Palestine Note 16 Jun 2011 - Gerard Horton - Last month, a 13-year-old
boy from a small village in the occupied West Bank woke up to the sound
of loud banging on the front door of his family home - it was 3:00 am.
Omar's father...
**AlJazeera* <http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/>*
***Deaths in Israeli coastal city blast*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/ 2011/06/20116162 21839335630. html>
AlJazeera 16 Jun 2011 - At least four people are killed and 30 injured
by gas explosion in building in the coastal city of Netanya.
**
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ americas/ 2011/06/20116170 344240747. html>*Libyan
rebels reject election offer*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ africa/2011/ 06/2011616213971 18437.html>
AlJazeera 16 Jun 2011 - Anti-government forces and the United States
quickly dismiss offer by Gaddafi's son to hold elections within months.
*Close Mubarak associate held in Spain*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/ 2011/06/20116161 91712783461. html>
AlJazeera 16 Jun 2011 - Egyptian officials say Hussein Salam will be
bought back to Egypt to face a number of charges.
*Greek PM talks tough amid worsening crisis*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ europe/2011/ 06/2011616171959 154948.html>
AlJazeera 16 Jun 2011 - George Papandreou vows to stay the course and
pursue reforms amid growing resentment over austerity measures.
*Syrian tanks ring restive northern towns*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/ 2011/06/20116161 41929308752. html>
AlJazeera 16 Jun 2011 - Residents continue to flee as tanks and armoured
vehicles deploy around Maarat al-Numan and Khan Sheikhun towns.
*Anti-government protests continue in Yemen*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/ 2011/06/20116161 3436769152. html>
AlJazeera 16 Jun 2011 - Protesters say they are not against continued
GCC mediation and insist their primary goal is President Saleh's removal.
*Bahrain frees activists held after UN sit-in*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/ 2011/06/20116161 13220393709. html>
AlJazeera 16 Jun 2011 - Authorities free three women who staged a sit-in
at UN offices in Mamana amid calls from the US for dialogue.
*Palestine News Network* <http://english. pnn.ps/>
*Little Chance for Peace, Says King Abdullah*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=10244& Itemid=56>
PNN - Amman - PNN - Jordan's King Abdullah II told the Washington Post
that the chances for peace between Israel and Palestine are low after
various peace initiatives taken over the past month...
*Palestinian Stargazers Treated to a Lunar Eclipse*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=10243& Itemid=>
PNN - Bethlehem -- PNN -- Throughout Palestine, avid astronomers, both
amateur and professional, watched in awe from their roofs, terraces, and
porches the longest lunar eclipse in 11 years overnight on Wednesday.
Palestinians. ..
*Netanyahu Concerned over Possible Third Intifada*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=10242& Itemid=73>
PNN - Jerusalem -- PNN -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has
concerns over a possible third intifada this summer before the planned
Palestinians declaration of statehood at the UN in September, Israeli
officials...
*Livni Chides Netanyahu for Calling Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
'Insoluble'*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=10241& Itemid=56>
PNN - Jerusalem - PNN - Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni has
rejected Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's statement to Haaretz in
which he said that there is no solution to the conflict. Speaking to...
*International Solidarity Movement* <http://palsolidarit y.org/>
*Popular Committee leader of Ni'lin arrested and two protesters injured
by live ammo in Deir Qaddis* <http://palsolidarit y.org/2011/ 06/18899/>
6/16/2011 - International Solidarity Movement - 15 June 2011, Ni'lin -
Demonstrators disrupted new construction in the Israeli colony of Nili.
Israeli soldiers responded with baton charges, tear-gas, rubber-coated
bullets and live ammunition. One organizer was arrested and many olive
trees were burned. Two Palestinian youths in their twenties were hit by
live ammunition today, during a demo against illegal....
*European Union expresses concern over persecution of West Bank protest
organizer, Bassem Tamimi* <http://palsolidarit y.org/2011/ 06/18915/>
6/16/2011 - International SolidarityMovement - Popular Struggle
Coordination Committee - EU representative to UN Human Rights Council
stated on Tuesday that "The rights of Israeli and Palestinian Human
Rights Defenders protesting peacefully [. . . ] are severely curtailed",
mentioning Tamimi's case explicitly. The European Union expressed its
concern last Tuesday that Palestinian "human rights defenders continue
to be detained for their non.... Related:Popular Struggle Coordination
Committee <http://popularstrug gle.org/>andFull Statement
<http://www.populars truggle.org/ sites/all/ modules/civicrm/ extern/url. php?u=853& qid=259893>
*Alternative Information Center* <http://www.alternat ivenews.org/>
*Israel Displaces 67 Palestinian Children from Their Homes in May 2011*
<http://www.alternat ivenews.org/ english/index. php/topics/ jerusalem/ 3663-israel- displaces- 67-palestinian- children- from-their- homes-in- may-2011->
Alternative Information Center - The most recent monthly report of the
United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) concerning home
demolitions and forced displacement in the West Bank and East Jerusalem
notes that in May 2011 there was an increase...
*Relief Web*
<http://www.reliefwe b.int/rw/ rwb.nsf/doc106? OpenForm& emid=ACOS- 635PFR&rc= 3>
*With an Olympic torch, Gaza Summer Games kick off for fifth year*
<http://reliefweb. int/node/ 420567>
Relief Web 16 Jun 2011 - Source: UN Relief and Works Agency for
Palestine Refugees in the Near East Country: occupied Palestinian
territory 16 June 2011 Gaza City This year's Gaza Summer Games have
officially opened with an Olympic-style torch relay through the Strip.
The annual...
*Marka girls visit Al-Hakika TV* <http://reliefweb. int/node/ 420469>
Relief Web 16 Jun 2011 - Source: UN Relief and Works Agency for
Palestine Refugees in the Near East Country: occupied Palestinian
territory Thirty girls from UNRWA Marka Preparatory Girls School visited
Al-Hakika TV headquarters on 19 May. The visit was to celebrate the
success of...
*Palestine Telegraph* <http://paltelegraph .com/>
*Eichel prisoners go on hunger strike*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 9444-eichel- prisoners- go-on-hunger- strike.html>
16 Jun 2011 - West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)-Palestin ian prisoners in
Israeli Eichel detention announced Thursday a hunger strike to protest
illegal policy by the Israeli prison administration.
*Israel detains Palestinian legislator in Hebron*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 9443-israeli- detains-palestin ian-legislator- in-hebron. html>
16 Jun 2011 - West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)-Israeli occupation forces
detained Thursday a Palestinian legislator from his house in the West of
Hebron.
*Settlers burn olive trees in Bil'in*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 9442-settlers- burn-olive- trees-in- bilin.html>
16 Jun 2011 - West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)-Israeli settlers burnt
yesterday dozens of olive trees planted in the territories of Bil'in
village located behind the Apartheid Wall in the West of Ramallah.
*Israeli soldiers injure nonviolent protestors near Ramallah*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 9441-israeli- soldiers- injure-nonviolen t-protestors- near-ramallah. html>
16 Jun 2011 - West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)-Seven Palestinians were injured
yesterday during violent clashes erupted between Israeli soldiers and
Palestinian youths in the west of Ramallah.
*The National* <http://thenational. ae/section/ FOREIGN?profile= 1011>
*Ayman al Zawahri appointed al Qa'eda leader*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ ayman-al- zawahri-appointe d-al-qaeda- leader>
The National 16 Jun 2011 - Zawahri, Bin Laden's lieutenant and the
brains behind much of al Qa'eda's strategy, promised this month to press
ahead with al Qa'eda's campaign against the United States and its allies.
*Reality check cools the initial heat of the Arab Spring*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ reality-check- cools-the- initial-heat- of-the-arab- spring>
The National 16 Jun 2011 - Much has changed in six months, both
politically and psychologically, as a new political consciousness has
taken hold, sweeping away countless stereotypes of Arabs and the region
as a whole.
*The Arab Spring country by country*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ the-arab- spring-country- by-country>
The National 16 Jun 2011 - Much has changed in six months, both
politically and psychologically, as a new political consciousness has
taken hold, sweeping away countless stereotypes of Arabs and the region
as a whole.
*Al Qa'eda expected to focus regionally with al Zawahiri as chief*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ al-qaeda- expected- to-focus- regionally- with-al-zawahiri -as-chief>
The National 16 Jun 2011 - New chief of al Qa'eda will probably focus
more on Middle East as he seeks to revive the influence of the group in
the aftermath of bin Laden's death, a leading former prison-mate says.
*Kuwait faces new political turmoil over fate of prime minister*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ kuwait-faces- new-political- turmoil-over- fate-of-prime- minister>
The National 16 Jun 2011 - The prime minister will need support from 25
of 49 eligible MPs in a vote of non-cooperation on June 23, or the emir
will face the difficult choice of sacking him or calling an early election.
*Syrian violence turns border with Turkey into tent city*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ syrian-violence- turns-border- with-turkey- into-tent- city>
The National 16 Jun 2011 - Fears grow as Turkey braces for fresh flood
of 10,000 refugees from Syria scared of the violence unleashed in recent
weeks by their country's army.
*Is the global economy back on an even keel?*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ asia-pacific/ is-the-global- economy-back- on-an-even- keel>
The National 16 Jun 2011 - Day rates for the movement of goods around
the world hit their peak in early 2008, a few months before the global
financial crisis. Which direction are these same prices heading in now,
and can the shipping industry help predict the direction of the global
economy?
*Ha'aretz* <http://haaretz. com/>
*4 dead, dozens injured in Netanya building explosion*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ 4-dead-dozens- injured-in- netanya-building -explosion- 1.368126>
Ha'aretz - Initial investigation reveals explosion likely the result of
a gas tank explosion.
*AG to Netanyahu: Stop bill giving preference to IDF veterans*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ ag-to-netanyahu- stop-bill- giving-preferenc e-to-idf- veterans- 1.368118>
Ha'aretz - Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein tells Prime Minister that
the bill, which gives preference to applicants for government jobs who
are veterans of Israel Defense Forces, is discriminatory.
*Watch: Video shows IDF preparing for next Gaza flotilla*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/watch- video-shows- idf-preparing- for-next- gaza-flotilla- 1.368091>
Ha'aretz - The naval exercise includes intercepting ships of various
sizes and handling both non-violent and violent passengers.
*Israel won't investigate IDF soldier photographed next to bound
Palestinians*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ israel-won- t-investigate- idf-soldier- photographed- next-to-bound- palestinians- 1.368106>
Ha'aretz - While the deputy state prosecutor says Eden Aberjil's actions
do not justify criminal proceedings, he will launch criminal
investigations into two other IDF soldiers over footage of controversial
behavior.
*Jordan's Abdullah: Israel is not interested in peace*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/jordan- s-abdullah- israel-is- not-interested- in-peace- 1.368039>
Ha'aretz - In interview with Washington Post, Jordan King Abdullah
laments Israeli public's gravitation toward the right, rejection of 1967
borders, saying prospects for Middle East peace are grim.
*Rep. Anthony Weiner resigns over Twitter scandal*
<http://www.haaretz. com/jewish- world/rep- anthony-weiner- resigns-over- twitter-scandal- 1.368102>
Ha'aretz - Embattled U.S. Congressman Anthony Weiner bows to Democratic
leadership pressure, after he sent sexually charged photos and messages
online to several women.
*A Special Place in Hell / Jewish leftists need to have the Talk*
<http://www.haaretz. com/blogs/ a-special- place-in- hell/jewish- leftists- need-to-have- the-talk- 1.368082>
Ha'aretz - Why bother bringing up the right of return now? Why should
Jewish leftists go out of their way to discuss ROR in depth with one
another, with other Jews, other leftists, and, if possible, with
Palestinians as well?
*Israeli investigated on his Jewish status after Haaretz interview*
<http://www.haaretz. com/print- edition/news/ israeli-investig ated-on-his- jewish-status- after-haaretz- interview- 1.367961>
Ha'aretz - Kibbutz resident Itai Bar believes a Family Affair article is
to blame for his case being 'blocked' at the population registrar
office; in the article, Bar is quoted as calling himself a 'Shabbes goy.'
*Israeli medical resident arrested for Naksa Day violence*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/israeli- medical-resident -arrested- for-naksa- day-violence- 1.368080>
Ha'aretz -
*Negotiations fail as doctors storm out of meeting with Finance
Ministry*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ negotiations- fail-as-doctors- storm-out- of-meeting- with-finance- ministry- 1.368076>
Ha'aretz - Finance Ministry tells doctors they will shorten shifts to 22
hours and add 160 shifts, but doctors say this move is just the
implementation of a program already agreed upon last year.
*Olmert denies receiving cash-filled envelopes from Jewish American
businessman*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ olmert-denies- receiving- cash-filled- envelopes- from-jewish- american- businessman- 1.368064>
Ha'aretz - Former PM starts second part of testimony in his corruption
trial, denies Morris Talansky's allegations against him.
*Man killed in suspected criminal Acre shooting*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ man-killed- in-suspected- criminal- acre-shooting- 1.368026>
Ha'aretz - Man in his 50's found dead in his car in east part of Acre;
victim known by police who believe his death the result of dispute
between criminals.
*Mexican police arrest drug boss 'El Brad Pitt'*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ international/ mexican-police- arrest-drug- boss-el-brad- pitt-1.368099>
Ha'aretz - Thirty-four- year-old Marco Guzman is a leader of the cartel's
armed wing, La Linea, who had a 500,000 peso ($42,000) reward on his head.
*Report: Syria troops arrest thousands of demonstrators in country's
northwest*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ international/ report-syria- troops-arrest- thousands- of-demonstrators -in-country- s-northwest- 1.368097>
Ha'aretz - Syrian activist tell DPA the army is preparing to take over
Hama; Hollywood star and UN goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie expected
to travel to Turkey to visit displaced Syrians.
*Al-Zawahri named new al-Qaida chief, vows to continue jihad against
Israel*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ international/ al-zawahri- named-new- al-qaida- chief-vows- to-continue- jihad-against- israel-1. 368034>
Ha'aretz - Al-Qaida's longtime No. 2 replaces Osama bin Laden, swears to
target Israel and U.S., in 'jihad against the apostate invaders.'
*Lessin: Food prices will continue to rise*
<http://english. themarker. com/lessin- food-prices- will-continue- to-rise-1. 367976>
Ha'aretz - Food prices expected to increase due to rising price of raw
materials and macroeconomic forecasts of future shortages.
*Cottage cheese furor reaches Knesset as boycott spreads*
<http://english. themarker. com/cottage- cheese-furor- reaches-knesset- as-boycott- spreads-1. 367973>
Ha'aretz - Israel may begin allowing parallel imports of dairy products
and cheeses.
*Kibbutz Sdot Yam: From bankruptcy to Nasdaq*
<http://english. themarker. com/kibbutz- sdot-yam- from-bankruptcy- to-nasdaq- 1.367978>
Ha'aretz - Bad management and a gamble on untried technology nearly
killed it, yet like a phoenix, it rose from ashes.
*'Suspected Israeli spy declared himself Muslim to get Egypt visa'*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/suspecte d-israeli- spy-declared- himself-muslim- to-get-egypt- visa-1.368033>
Ha'aretz - Ilan Grapel, a Jewish American citizen detained in Egypt, may
face trial next week on suspicion of espionage, the Egyptian newspaper
Al-Ahram reports.
*Report: Egypt's al-Karama party wants to cancel peace treaty with
Israel*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/report- egypt-s-al- karama-party- wants-to- cancel-peace- treaty-with- israel-1. 368011>
Ha'aretz - Two countries signed peace agreement in 1979; party says
peace with Israel is not in national interest, according to Egyptian
newspaper.
*Jerusalem Post* <http://jpost. com/>
*The Egyptian doctor who globalized his caliphate crusade*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=225400& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 17 Jun 2011 - Background: Osama bin Laden replacement
Ayman al-Zawahri's life story contains within it the story of how the
modern al-Qaida network was formed.
*Light rail's start may be delayed by 3 months*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=225398& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 17 Jun 2011 - Derailment, infighting lead to another
round of delays.
*As food prices rise, NGOs say gov't war on poverty failing*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=225396& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 17 Jun 2011 - Gov't initiative "not even a drop in the
ocean" says Leket CEO Gidi Kroch.
*'Gas explosion' rocks building in Netanya; 4 dead, 50 hurt*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=225390& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 16 Jun 2011 - Police say blast at 4-story building
caused by gas tank; MDA paramedics search for trapped people; report
leak may have been caused by thief stealing gas pipes to sell metal
parts, suspect in custody.
*Turkey calls for immediate end to Assad's crackdown*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=225388& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 16 Jun 2011 - "Serious rupture" between Ankara and
Damascus over continued violence and refugees fleeing across border.
*After 2 months of quiet, Kassam rocket fired from Gaza*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=225373& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 16 Jun 2011 - Rocket falls in open field in Eshkol
Regional Council in southern Israel; no injuries or damage reported in
the attack.
*'Accused Mossad spy could face charges in 1 week'*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=225368& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 16 Jun 2011 - 'Al-Ahram' claims Ilan Grapel confessed to
working for Mossad to foment Egypt unrest, recruit citizens to help him
in his espionage campaign.
*A-G asks PM to block 'discriminatory' Israel Beiteinu bill*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=225369& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 16 Jun 2011 - Bill would give preference to those who
served in the IDF, completed national service in being hired to the
civil service.
*King's snail's pace reforms angers Jordanians*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=225361& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 16 Jun 2011 - Jordan's monarchy comes under
unprecedented criticism, spurring fears of wider unrest; anger builds
over corruption-plagued housing projects.
*Doctors, nurses team up for sanctions after talks fail*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=225360& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 16 Jun 2011 - Negotiations break down after Treasury
claims agreement on shifts can be reached; MK Adatto calls on Litzman to
retract statements or resign.
*State to prosecute soldiers in prisoner abuse photos*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=225355& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 16 Jun 2011 - Prosecution says it won't prosecute Eden
Abergil because she's no longer in IDF; cases involve soldiers pointing
guns at blindfolded detainees.
*Yishai calls on A-G to investigate price fixing claims*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=225343& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 16 Jun 2011 - As Facebook consumer boycott gains steam,
interior minister calls to probe "if business leaders are conspiring
behind backs of citizens."
*State won't prosecute Eden Abergil for Facebook photos*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=225331& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 16 Jun 2011 - Soldier shown in video dancing with
blindfolded, bound female Palestinian will face charges, deputy state
prosecutor announces.
*Olmert: Talansky's testimony is nothing but fantasy*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=225336& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 16 Jun 2011 - On 7th day in the witness box, ex-PM
denies he took cash bribes from US philanthropist, responding to
allegations he hid the money.
*'Iran says it will send monkey into space this summer'*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=225332& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 16 Jun 2011 - Iranian Space Agency plans to launch
rocket this summer with monkey on board; plans to send man to space in
near future.
*Palestinians no longer welcome, says Lebanese Mufti*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=225297& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 16 Jun 2011 - "You're trash, you'll never be
victorious," Sheikh Qabbani tells stunned Palestinians reps.
*Turkish FM calls for immediate end to Syrian crackdown*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=225283& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 16 Jun 2011 - Davutoglu meets with top Syrian envoy,
calls for reforms and stop to violence in Syria after saying he "saw the
fear in the eyes of the people."
*Jordan's Abdullah: 2011 will be very bad year for peace*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=225278& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 16 Jun 2011 - In interview with the 'Washington Post,'
Hashemite ruler lauds Arab Spring, warns of diminishing chances for a
two-state solution.
*Olmert: Talansky's testimony is make-believe, nonsense*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=225272& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 16 Jun 2011 - Ex-prime minister denies he took cash
donations from US philanthropist, responding to allegations he stashed
the money in his safe.
*'Assad forces make sweeping arrests in Syria's northwest'*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=225249& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 16 Jun 2011 - Rights activist says at least 300 people
arrested daily, troops open fire on crowds at Maarat al-Numaan.
*Bin Laden's right-hand man Zawahri named al-Qaida chief ?*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=225230& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 16 Jun 2011 - Ayman al-Zawahri takes command of
al-Qaida; vows to continue to fight to "expel invaders from the land of
Muslims and to purify it from injustice."
*Analysis: Arab spring likely to leave oil firms unscathed*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=225227& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 16 Jun 2011 - Some operations suspended in Libya; French
oil major loses production at Yemen oil field, BP chief exec: "I
wouldn't describe us as worried."
*Eritrean man reportedly kills wife, son, then hangs himself*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=225220& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 16 Jun 2011 - Man's body found in forest outside
Ashkelon; in a separate incident, a 49-year-old man from Acre was shot
to death while driving in his car.
*Sides argue over Kamm sentencing behind closed doors*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=225216& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 16 Jun 2011 - Sentencing hearing for Anat Kamm,
convicted of possessing, distributing secret info on state security,
begins behind closed doors in TA court.
*'Ilan Grapel claimed he is Muslim in visa request to Egypt'*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=225213& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 16 Jun 2011 - Probe on alleged Mossad spy reveals he
tried to get info on Hamas-Fatah unity deal and how Egyptian public
feels about it, 'al-Ahram' reports.
*Jordan's Abdullah 'pessimistic' about peace prospects*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=225211& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 16 Jun 2011 - In 'Washington Post' interview Jordanian
king discusses positive role of Jordan in peace process but says 2011
will be "a very bad year for peace."
*The Guardian* <http://guardian. co.uk/world/ palestinian- territories>
*Israel blast leaves three dead*
<http://www.guardian .co.uk/world/ 2011/jun/ 17/israel- blast-netanya>
The Guardian 16 Jun 2011 - Police say cause of explosion in coastal city
of Netanya unclear -- but reports claim gas leak to blame At least three
people have been killed and about 15 injured in an explosion in the
Israeli...
*Inter Press Service* <http://ipsnews. net/middle. asp>
*Al-Zawahiri Named New Al-Qaeda Chief*
<http://ipsnews. net/news. asp?idnews= 56120>
IPS Al-Qaeda has named Ayman al-Zawahiri as its new chief following the
killing of Osama bin Laden, the group has said in a statement issued in
the name of the group's general command.
*Palestinian Children Targeted as Israel Crushes Unrest*
<http://ipsnews. net/news. asp?idnews= 56112>
IPS "Father please help me! Don't let them take me away," screamed
12-year-old Ahmed Siyam as approximately 50 heavily armed Israeli
soldiers and police dragged the handcuffed and blindfolded boy away.
*MIDEAST: Politics Triumphs Over Reason*
<http://ipsnews. net/news. asp?idnews= 56105>
IPS "The heart has it reasons, of which reason knows nothing of," wrote
15th- century French philosopher Blaise Pascal. Apply the words of
wisdom to the prospective U.N.-endorsed recognition of Palestinian
statehood, but replace "the heart" with 'politics'.
*SYRIA: Humanitarian Crisis Intensifies as Security Council Remains
Idle* <http://ipsnews. net/news. asp?idnews= 56099>
IPS When reports of protests and subsequent civilian deaths as security
forces fired on protestors began filtering in from the southern Syrian
city of Dera'a in March, many wondered what turn events would take in
both Syria and the international community in the wake of earlier
uprisings during the 'Arab Spring'....
*
*Uruknet* <http://uruknet. info/>*
***Revisiting "The Honor of Being Human," or: Don't Be a Pigfucker*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 78693>
Uruknet June 16, 2011 - ...Note that Smith doesn't claim that Obama and
the Democrats won't harm you. He claims only that they'll harm you less
than the Republicans. Also note why the argument so obviously fails:
when Obama is determined to destroy you, either quickly (remember that
Obama claims the "right" and power to murder anyone in the...
*Dismissively Ignoring Hard Times* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 78692>
Uruknet June 16, 2011 - Despite a deepening global depression,
Washington, Wall Street and America's media remain largely in denial,
for how much longer isn't certain as hard times get tougher for growing
millions worldwide. Tough enough, in fact, for angry demonstrators to
strike and protest austerity measures across Europe in Greece, Spain,
Ireland, Portugal, Britain, France, Germany, Italy,...
*Israel plans to forcibly transfer 40,000 Bedouin citizens*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 78691>
Uruknet June 16, 2011 - A new Israeli proposal that would forcibly
transfer more than 40,000 Bedouin citizens into government-planned
townships in the Negev (Naqab) desert has raised the ire of Bedouin
communities and their supporters, who say that the plan is both
discriminatory and ignores the Bedouins' historic connection to the
land. "[The Israeli government thinks] that the...
*Syria: Humanitarian Crisis Intensifies as Security Council Remains
Idle* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 78690>
Uruknet June 16, 2011 - - When reports of protests and subsequent
civilian deaths as security forces fired on protestors began filtering
in from the southern Syrian city of Dera'a in March, many wondered what
turn events would take in both Syria and the international community in
the wake of earlier uprisings during the 'Arab Spring'. Since then,
events...
*Palestinian Children Targeted as Israel Crushes Unrest*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 78689>
Uruknet June 16, 2011 - "Father please help me! Don't let them take me
away," screamed 12-year-old Ahmed Siyam as approximately 50 heavily
armed Israeli soldiers and police dragged the handcuffed and blindfolded
boy away. Last month Ahmed was pulled out of his bed at 4am by Israeli
security forces led by Shin Bet agents from Israel's domestic
intelligence. ..
*Statement from the Freedom Flotilla II -Stay Human Steering Committee
to the UN Human Rights Council* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 78688>
Uruknet June 15, 2011 - In September 2010 the international Fact-Finding
Mission to investigate violations of international law resulting from
the Israeli attacks on the Freedom Flotilla I concluded that the conduct
of the Israeli military towards its passengers, when it was unlawfully
intercepted on the way to Gaza on 31 May 2001, "demonstrated levels of
totally unnecessary and...
*Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory (09- 15 June 2011)*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 78687>
Uruknet June 16, 2011 - ...Summary: Israeli violations of international
law and humanitarian law in the OPT continued during the reporting
period (09 - 15 June 2011): Shooting: During the reporting period, a
Palestinian died of wounds he had sustained during the wide scale
Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip. Two Palestinian civilians were also
wounded by IOF and...
*Obama defends Libya war, rejects need for Congress vote*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 78686>
Uruknet June 16, 2011 - The Obama administration argued Wednesday that
the War Powers Act, requiring congressional approval for undeclared US
wars, does not apply to the nearly three-month- old war against Libya. In
a letter to Congress, the White House revealed that US operations in
Libya have already cost $716 million and will top $1.1 billion by the end...
*A Pathetic Exile...* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 78685>
Uruknet June 16, 2011 - There is a turning point when the dramatic
becomes pathetic...am not quite sure when that happens, but I know it
does... It's more like one's pathetic attempts to re-capture what was
lost...and each attempt becomes even more derisory than the previous
one...one becomes pathetic in one's exile. These pathetic attempts to
re-capture what was...
*The West's Obscene Demonization of Gaddafi*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 78684>
Uruknet June 15, 2011 - ...The invasion of Iraq was launched by lies
about weapons of mass destruction. When the lies fell apart, American
politicians justified the war by saying it was worth it to get rid of
the monster, Saddam Hussein. Saddam was so thoroughly demonized that any
amount of maiming and death would be acceptable to erase...
*Facing the Bombs of America and NATO in the Libya Jamahariya*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 78683>
Uruknet June 15, 2011 - Just back from a fact-finding mission to Libya,
the author reports that Moammar Gaddafi enjoys widespread support among
the people. "All along the roads, people were chanting to those in their
cars driving east to Tripoli and west to Tunisia that they supported the
Jamahariya government." Poor Black Libyans have a huge stake in...
*PCHR Is Concerned over the Running out of Medications and Contraction
of Health services in the Gaza Strip* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 78682>
Uruknet June 15, 2011 - The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)
is deeply concerned over the cancellation of dozens of surgeries at
hospitals in the Gaza Strip and postponement of others to unknown
periods, due to the serious shortages in medications and medical
supplies, as the Gaza Strip has not been supplied with medications and
medical needs since...
*Arab League should expel Assad regime* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 78680>
Uruknet June 15, 2011 - ...One human rights activist in the occupied
Palestinian territories intimated to this writer that in 44 years of
ruthless Israeli military occupation he never witnessed even a semblance
of the barbarianism and sadism displayed by the Syrian regime against
its own people... The Syrian regime seems to have exhausted its
inventory of shameless disinformation. ..
*Iraq snapshot - June 15, 2011* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 78679>
Uruknet June 15, 2011. Chaos and violence continue, wheeling and dealing
continues in Iraq, today was Press Day in Iraq, Robert Gates celebrated
by getting bitchy with a US Senator in Congress today, USA Today takes a
stand on veterans issues, and more.... At the start of this month,
Reporters Without Borders was noting, "Reporters and cameramen from local...
*Nato refuses to rule out bombing ancient ruins in air strikes aimed at
taking out Gaddafi* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 78678>
Uruknet June 15, 2011 - Nato has refused to rule out bombing Libya's
ancient Roman ruins if Colonel Gaddafi is using them to hide military
equipment. Rebels in the divided country claim the under-pressure Libyan
leader could be hiding rocket launchers at the UNESCO World Heritage
site of Leptis Magna - which is between the capital Tripoli and
rebel-held.. .
*Returning to Jerusalem* <http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 78677>
Uruknet June 15, 2011 - Izzat Aziz Maswadeh was among the thousands of
Palestinians who on Nakba commemoration day, 15.05.2011, continued the
collective march of return to Palestine and to Palestinian homes and
villages. Izzat was one of the thousands of Palestinian refugees who
continued the march that is as old as the Nakba itself, the march of
return...
*Activism News US citizen in Jerusalem arrest video speaks to EI*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 78676>
Uruknet June 15, 2011 - American Jewish activist and university student
Lucas Koerner was arrested in Jerusalem on 1 June - when thousands of
right-wing Israelis, including settlers, marked "Jerusalem Day" by
provocatively marching through Palestinian East Jerusalem to celebrate
the "unification" of the city. Koerner's violent arrest by Israeli
police was captured on video and has been viewed...
*Syria: Massacres Galore, But Who's Watching? Does Anyone Give a Damn?*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 78675>
Uruknet June 15, 2011 - 6 civilians reported dead in Arihaa in
northwestern Syria, as government death squads continue their crackdown
against unarmed civilians protesting Assad authoritarian rule. Military
operations continue in Jisr Ashoughour as more protesters say that the
mass graves uncovered by Syrian TV actually host bodies of protesters
not security officers. Defecting Colonel Hussein Harmoush says...
*NATO air strike reportedly kills 12 in Libya: State TV*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 78669>
Uruknet June 15, 2011 - - NATO airstrike hit a bus loaded with
passengers Wednesday evening in Kikla city, 120 km southwest of the
capital Tripoli, killing 12 and wounding two others, Libyan state TV
reported. The strikes hit the bus at the entrance of the city in the
mountainous region southwest of Tripoli, Libyan state TV quoted military...
*Israeli troops attack anti-Wall protest near Ramallah, injuring seven*
<http://www.uruknet. info/?new= 78665>
Uruknet June 15, 2011 - According to local sources, Israeli forces
attacked a non-violent action by Palestinian men, women and children
trying to block Israeli bulldozers from bulldozing their farmland and
orchards on Wednesday. Eyewitnesses reported that the injured protesters
were beaten by the soldiers with clubs and rifle butts, knocking two
young men unconscious and sending seven to...
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[OccupationNews] Digest Number 1413
Thu Jun 16, 2011 7:31 pm (PDT)
*Daily Star* <http://dailystar. com.lb/>
*Syrian tycoon quits business, takes up charity*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ Jun-17/Syrian- tycoon-quits- business- takes-up- charity.ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 Syrian tycoon Rami Makhlouf, cousin of President
Bashar Assad, is quitting business and moving to charity work, state
television said Thursday, a move that would meet a demand of protesters
seeking an end to Assad's rule.
*Iraqi court sentences 15 to death for wedding party massacre*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ Jun-17/Iraqi- court-sentences- 15-to-death- for-wedding- party-massacre. ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 An Iraqi court Thursday sentenced 15 alleged
Al-Qaeda members to death for their role in the 2006 wedding party
massacre of 70 people, considered one of the most horrific attacks
carried out by Sunni-led militants during...
*Russian envoy visits Libya as Gadhafi digs in heels*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ Jun-17/Russian- envoy-visits- Libya-as- Gadhafi-digs- in-heels. ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 Libya's Moammar Gadhafi is willing to hold
elections and step aside if he lost, his son said Thursday, an offer
unlikely to placate his opponents but which could test the unity of the
Western alliance trying...
*Bahrain's dialogue with opposition groups met with skepticism*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ Jun-17/Bahrains- dialogue- with-opposition- groups-met- with-skepticism. ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 Bahrain's ruler has canceled all vacations for
top officials next month and a special center and mediator have been
named for talks with opposition groups, proposed to open on July 1.Now
the question is whether anyone...
*Mubarak probe very difficult: investigator*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ Jun-17/Mubarak- probe-very- difficult- investigator. ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 A judicial official investigating the wealth of
ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Thursday the job was
proving extremely difficult, describing the strongman as a master of the
art of evasion.
*Palestinians to press for a seat at the U.N.*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ Jun-17/Palestini ans-to-press- for-a-seat- at-the-UN. ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 Palestinians will seek U.N. recognition and
membership regardless of whether there is a resumption of peace talks,
negotiator Mohammad Shtayeh said Thursday.
*Dozens dead in new North-South Sudan fighting*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ Jun-17/Dozens- dead-in-new- North-South- Sudan-fighting. ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 Fighting has erupted along a new front near the
internal border between North and South Sudan with dozens of people
reported killed, aid workers and a U.N. report said.
*Syrian security forces conduct mass arrests in troubled north*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ Jun-17/Syrian- security- forces-conduct- mass-arrests- in-troubled- north.ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 Syrian security forces fanned out through
villages and towns in the northern province of Idlib Thursday, randomly
hauling in males over age 16 as the regime worked to silence a center of
anti-regime protest.
*Jordan's king fears very bad year for Middle East peace*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ Jun-17/Jordans- king-fears- very-bad- year-for- Middle-East- peace.ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 Jordan's King Abdullah II expressed pessimism
about the prospects of Middle East peace in an interview published
Thursday, speaking openly about a one-state solution to the conflict.
*Saudi women plan to defy kingdom's driving ban today*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ Jun-17/Saudi- women-plan- to-defy-kingdoms -driving- ban-today. ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 A group of Saudi women are preparing to defy a
ban on women's driving today in a series of staged demonstrations across
the kingdom.
*Saleh tells Bahraini king: I will fight on*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ Jun-17/Saleh- tells-Bahraini- king-I-will- fight-on. ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 President Ali Abdullah Saleh vowed Thursday to
overcome Yemen's crisis, signalling once again he has no plans to quit,
and in the latest in a wave of raids, gunmen attacked government
buildings and a checkpoint.
*Gas explosion kills 3 in Israeli city*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ Jun-17/Israeli- media-say- three-people- killed-in- huge-blast- in-Netanya. ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 At least 15 other people were injured in the
explosion, which caused the first floor of a four-story residential
building to collapse.
*Syrian tycoon Makhlouf, Assad cousin, to quit business-state TV*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ Jun-16/Syrian- tycoon-Makhlouf- Assad-cousin- to-quit-business -state-TV. ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 Makhlouf, a hate figure among protesters, owns
Syria's largest mobile phone company, Syriatel, and several large
construction and oil firms.
*Ukraine professors defend Palestinian engineer*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ Jun-16/Ukraine- professors- defend-Palestini an-engineer. ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 Former professors of a Palestinian engineer
captured in Ukraine and sent to Israel to face charges he built missiles
for the militant group Hamas refute allegations in his indictment that
he was taught weapons systems.
*Jordanians condemn 'troubling' attack on AFP*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ Jun-16/Jordanian s-condemn- troubling- attack-on- AFP.ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 Dozens of journalists, trade unionists and
politicians demonstrated Thursday outside AFP's Amman bureau in support
of the news agency after a gang broke into its office and destroyed
equipment.
*Reactions to Zawahri as new Qaeda chief*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ Jun-16/Reactions -to-Zawahri- as-new-Qaeda- chief.ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 Veteran militant Ayman al-Zawahri has taken
command of Al-Qaeda after the killing of Osama bin Laden, an Islamist
website said Thursday, a move that had been expected after his many
years as second in command.
*Obama report on Libya fails to appease lawmakers*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ Jun-16/Obama- report-on- Libya-fails- to-appease- lawmakers. ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 The White House is vigorously defending President
Barack Obama's right to keep the U.S. military engaged in Libya without
congressional approval, but its arguments aren't soothing the anger
among Republican lawmakers and anti-war Democrats.
*Turkey calls for immediate crackdown end to Syrian crackdown*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ Jun-16/Turkey- calls-for- immediate- crackdown- end-to-Syrian- crackdown. ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 Turkey called for Syria to immediately halt a
violent crackdown on protesters and pass democratic reforms, in a
meeting Thursday between Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and a top
Syrian envoy.
*Russia, China express concern over Libya, call for dialogue with Iran*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ Jun-16/Russia- China-call- express-concern- over-Libya- call-for- dialogue- with-Syria- Iran.ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 Russia and China expressed concern about the
situation in war-torn Libya Thursday and urged strict adherence to U.N.
Security Council resolutions, signaling dissatisfaction with Western
airstrikes.
*Dutch envoy plays down kidnapping of 2 diplomats*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Local- News/2011/ Jun-16/Dutch- envoy-plays- down-kidnapping- of-2-diplomats. ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 An official at the Netherlands Embassy in Beirut
Thursday confirmed that two Dutch diplomats were last month snatched and
driven to Syria before being released.
*China invites Omar al-Bashir for a visit*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Middle- East/2011/ Jun-16/China- invites-Omar- al-Bashir- for-a-visit. ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 China says Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will
visit the country in a little over a week, despite the fact he's wanted
by an international court on war crimes charges.
*Wahhab denies 'Israeli spy' is personal bodyguard*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Local- News/2011/ Jun-16/Wahhab- denies-Israeli- spy-is-personal- bodyguard. ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 Head of the Arab Tawheed Party Wiam Wahhab denied
Thursday that a man charged with spying for Israel was his personal
bodyguard.
*Mikati embarks upon duties, policy statement in the works*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Politics/ 2011/Jun- 16/Mikati- resumes-duties- policy-statement -in-the-works. ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 Najib Mikati assumed his duties as Prime Minister
Thursday after holding a meeting of the ministerial committee, tasked
with drafting a policy statement.
*Dutch military attaché briefly kidnapped in Baalbek*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Local- News/2011/ Jun-16/Dutch- military- attache-briefly- kidnapped- in-Baalbek. ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 A Dutch diplomat had been kidnapped in east
Lebanon's city of Baalbek and taken to Damascus, where he was released
soon after documents revealed his identity, Al-Markazia news agency
reported.
*Suspected Lebanese crime ring members arrested in Europe*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ 2011/Jun- 16/Suspected- Lebanese- crime-ring- members-arrested -in-Europe. ashx>
Daily Star 16 Jun 2011 European police Tuesday arrested six suspected
members of a multi-national drug trafficking and money laundering
network and confiscated millions in cash, two police agencies said here.
*Israel warns Lebanon against violating 1701*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Politics/ 2011/Jun- 16/Israel- warns-Lebanon- against-violatin g-1701.ashx>
Daily Star 15 Jun 2011 Israel warned Lebanon's new Cabinet Wednesday to
respect its international legal and border agreements, including the
cessation of hostilities between the two one-time belligerents.
*Sleiman insists Cabinet made in Lebanon*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Politics/ 2011/Jun- 16/Sleiman- insists-Cabinet- made-in-Lebanon. ashx>
Daily Star 15 Jun 2011 President Michel Sleiman said Wednesday Prime
Minister Najib Mikati's Cabinet was 100 percent Lebanese, indirectly
rejecting March 14 claims that the government had been formed under
Syrian pressure.
*Tripoli clash leaves man in critical condition*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Politics/ 2011/Jun- 16/Tripoli- clash-leaves- man-in-critical- condition. ashx>
Daily Star 15 Jun 2011 One man was shot after a dispute between two
families in Tripoli that began overnight escalated Wednesday.
*Adnan Mansour vows to enhance Foreign Ministry*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Politics/ 2011/Jun- 16/Adnan- Mansour-vows- to-enhance- Foreign-Ministry .ashx>
Daily Star 15 Jun 2011 Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour vowed Wednesday to
work on enhancing his ministry on the administrative and diplomatic levels.
*Constructive opposition natural: Nazim Khoury*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Politics/ 2011/Jun- 16/Constructive- opposition- natural-Nazim- Khoury.ashx>
Daily Star 15 Jun 2011 The newly appointed environment minister said
Wednesday that constructive opposition was natural in a democracy, as he
called for giving the Cabinet some time and for judging it by its actions.
*March 14 intensifies its opposition stance*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ News/Politics/ 2011/Jun- 16/March- 14-intensifies- its-opposition- stance.ashx>
Daily Star 15 Jun 2011 March 14 groups blasted Prime Minister Najib
Mikati's government for the second consecutive day, warning that
Hezbollah and its allies in the Cabinet would seek a confrontation with
the international community, leading to Lebanon's isolation.
*YNet News* <http://ynetnews. com/>
*Naksa Day: Did Arab intern assault police?*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4083239,00. html>
YNet News, 16 Jun 2011 - Medical intern at Israeli hospital charged with
hurling stones at police during....
*Peres: Palestinians' UN move 'an illusion'*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4083194,00. html>
YNet News, 16 Jun 2011 - President tells AP differences with
Palestinians 'psychological rather than....
*'Facebook soldier' won't be probed*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4083229,00. html>
YNet News, 16 Jun 2011 - Soldier who posted photos of herself next to
blindfolded Palestinians won't face....
*Organizers: Flotilla no threat to Israel*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4083073,00. html>
YNet News, 16 Jun 2011 - Free Gaza 'determined to sail to Gaza';
meanwhile, Israel allows Turkish aid....
*Russia, China defend Iran's right to nuclear power*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4083148,00. html>
YNet News, 16 Jun 2011 - Tehran has right to peaceful program, but
should end defiance by cooperating. ...
*Settler placed under house arrest in Palestinian murder case*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4083122,00. html>
YNet News, 16 Jun 2011 - 'Police wasting their time,' says attorney
defending man who says shot....
*Turkey to vote for PA recognition in UN*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4083125,00. html>
YNet News, 16 Jun 2011 - Ankara's Abdullah Gül tells Japanese
publication his country will support....
*Olmert: Talansky fantasizing*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4083092,00. html>
YNet News, 16 Jun 2011 - Former PM takes testifies on 'cash envelopes'
scandal for first time. Denied....
*Life partner of Carmel fire victim to receive pension*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4083051,00. html>
YNet News, 16 Jun 2011 - Treasury deems lesbian life partner of IPS
Lt.-Col. Pabiola Buhadana, who was....
*Major League footballer suspected of sexual assault*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4083053,00. html>
YNet News, 16 Jun 2011 - Soccer player denies allegations, says
relations were consensual; placed under....
*Al-Qaeda names al-Zawahri new leader*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4082962,00. html>
YNet News, 16 Jun 2011 - Osama bin Laden's longtime deputy to become
terror group's front-man. Zawahiri....
*Egypt wants expedited trial for Israeli 'spy'*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4082934,00. html>
YNet News, 16 Jun 2011 - Cairo dailies say Egypt's authorities are
determined to see Ilan Grapel....
*
*WAFA - Palestine News Agency* <http://english. wafa.ps/>*
***Egyptian Foreign Minister Supports Recognition of Palestinian State*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16464>
WAFA
*Gaza Summer Games Kick Off for Fifth Year*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16463>
WAFA
*Agreement to Teach French in Palestinian Schools*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16462>
WAFA
*Israeli Municipality Gives Jewish Names to East Jerusalem Locations*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16459>
WAFA
*Netanyahu: Resolving Refugee Issue to be Outside Israel's Borders*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16458>
WAFA
*Newspapers Review: Confrontations Over Land Grab at Deir Qaddis*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16457>
WAFA
*EU Foreign Policy Chief to Visit Region*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16456>
WAFA
*Israeli Court Cancels Eviction Orders in Dahmash Village*
<http://english. wafa.ps/index. php?action= detail&id= 16455>
WAFA
**Intifada Palestine* <http://www.intifada -palestine. com/>*
*Israel: an Impediment to Nuclear-Free Middle East*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/intifada- palestine/ QuVY/%7E3/ 5RXqF1Y3JB8/>
Intifada-Palestine: 16 Jun 2011 - Kourosh Ziabari You might have
frequently heard of the Western mainstream media's claims that Iran is
pursuing a military nuclear program which is aimed at developing atomic
weapons. Actually, spreading falsehood and untruth about the nature of
Iran's peaceful nuclear program...more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/intifada- palestine/ QuVY/%7E3/ 5RXqF1Y3JB8/>
*Hypocrisy and Western-centric Human Rights*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/intifada- palestine/ QuVY/%7E3/ 5hpbPqcg3kQ/>
Intifada-Palestine: 16 Jun 2011 - Jamal Kanj -- Intifada Palestine
France is leading the way to censure the Syrian regime for violations of
human rights. Obama and Secretary Clinton spoke profusely of the Syrian
regime's culpability in shooting and killing civilians in the cities and
suburbia...more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/intifada- palestine/ QuVY/%7E3/ 5hpbPqcg3kQ/>
*Los Angeles Times* <http://latimes. com/news/ nationworld/ world/middleeast />
*Egyptian revolution's unsung heroes languish in hospitals*
<http://feeds. latimes.com/ %7Er/latimes/ middleeast/ %7E3/Pz6n8znZD9E /la-fg-egypt- injured-20110617 ,0,1897099. story>
LA Times 16 Jun 2011 - An estimated 11,000 people were injured in
protests that toppled Hosni Mubarak. But months later, as many still
undergo costly treatment, officials have done little to compensate their
families or prosecute their attackers. When Rahma Mohamed steps out of
her son's line of sight, he...
*Bin Laden's No. 2 is Al Qaeda's new chief*
<http://feeds. latimes.com/ %7Er/latimes/ middleeast/ %7E3/DPyniwLxehc /la-fg-qaeda- zawahiri- 20110617, 0,2121265. story>
LA Times 16 Jun 2011 - Egyptian doctor Ayman Zawahiri lacks Osama bin
Laden's charisma and may find Al Qaeda even tougher to manage. These
factors may make him all the more eager to launch a major attack and
prove himself, analysts warn. In July 2005, Al Qaeda second-in-command
Ayman Zawahiri...
*No breakthrough in Russian envoy's trip to Libya*
<http://feeds. latimes.com/ %7Er/latimes/ middleeast/ %7E3/MKpBIvGF- Hw/la-fg- libya-envoy- 20110617, 0,5702798. story>
LA Times 16 Jun 2011 - Russia's special envoy, Mikhail Margelov, meets
with government officials in Tripoli, but there is no progress on the
key sticking point -- Moammar Kadafi's future. Officials insist he will
remain in the country; rebels say they will not talk until he leaves. A
Russian envoy's...
*Turkey breaks with Syria over crackdown*
<http://feeds. latimes.com/ %7Er/latimes/ middleeast/ %7E3/22xw9Hh1jBg /la-fg-turkey- syria-20110617, 0,760017. story>
LA Times 16 Jun 2011 - Turkey, in a shift against its longtime ally,
welcomes defecting Syrian officers. It also announces plans to deliver
aid across the border to those displaced by Syrian President Bashar
Assad's deadly crackdown on antigovernment protesters. Turkey on
Thursday signaled a diplomatic shift to further distance...
*Syrian crackdown fans sectarian flames*
<http://feeds. latimes.com/ %7Er/latimes/ middleeast/ %7E3/FLQ3g48xo_ w/la-fg-syria- turmoil-20110616 ,0,7191737. story>
LA Times 15 Jun 2011 - The Alawite-dominated Syrian regime's assault on
mostly Sunni and ethnic Kurdish protesters has sharpened sectarian and
ethnic divisions that may spill, along with refugees, into neighboring
countries. President Bashar Assad's intensifying crackdown against a
three-month- long democratic uprising has become more than a question of
who...
*World leaders look for way out of Libya*
<http://feeds. latimes.com/ %7Er/latimes/ middleeast/ %7E3/nykoewSHj80 /la-fg-libya- diplomacy- 20110616, 0,5384268. story>
LA Times 15 Jun 2011 - Russia and Turkey join the discussion as concerns
about the NATO campaign's sustainability and a pending ruling by the
International Criminal Court add to the urgency. With questions growing
about NATO's air war and international arrest warrants threatening to
close off a diplomatic solution, new...
*Libya operation will proceed despite pressure from Congress, Obama aide
says*
<http://feeds. latimes.com/ %7Er/latimes/ middleeast/ %7E3/BUk4n481Y3I /la-fg-obama- libya-20110616, 0,4218425. story>
LA Times 15 Jun 2011 - The administration plans to keep running military
operations in Libya even if Congress doesn't approve, saying the U.S.
role is limited and does not violate the War Powers Act. The Obama
administration made clear Wednesday that it will keep running military
operations in Libya even...
*New York Times* <http://nytimes. com/pages/ world/middleeast />
*Reviled Tycoon, Assad's Cousin, Resigns in Syria*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=4a3a88b6387d2d 546af3594baf9f97 2d>
New York Times 16 Jun 2011 - Rami Makhlouf, a cousin of President Bashar
al-Assad, said he was quitting business, a move seen as a major
concession to antigovernment protesters.
*Clans and Tribes Forge New Yemen Unity*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=f4c8902371a96c 5e77866a45acb91e 4a>
New York Times 16 Jun 2011 - The very length of Yemen's protests --- far
longer than the 18 days of Egypt's Tahrir Square uprising --- may be
helping to overcome the country's deep fissures.
*Social Media Help Keep the Door Open to Sustained Dissent Inside Saudi
Arabia*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=cff548c83e256d b7352c312a69f0df c9>
New York Times 16 Jun 2011 - Virtually any issue that contradicts
official Saudi policy now pops up online, including more than 30,000
comments about a female driver's arrest.
*The Spanish Police Arrest a Mubarak Associate*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=4aa9631f3782b0 b36c30b9d19c53f7 5f>
New York Times 16 Jun 2011 - Hussein Salem, a close associate of former
President Hosni Mubarak, was arrested on charges of money laundering, a
Spanish news agency reported.
*News Office in Jordan Is Damaged in an Attack*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=2bbc0adb406dff 435f86c27dc56230 88>
New York Times 16 Jun 2011 - The bureau chief of Agence France-Presse in
Amman had received threats after the agency reported two days earlier of
an assault on the king's convoy.
*Israel Warns Of Using Force If New Flotilla Heads to Gaza*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=bd6c2955b09006 4a3a3a79dda2e50e d5>
New York Times 16 Jun 2011 - Israel made clear that if a new flotilla of
pro-Palestinian activists sought to break its naval blockade of Gaza,
the Israeli military would use force as it did a year ago.
*Qaeda Selection of Its Chief Is Said to Reflect Its Flaws*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=e8153224e2e716 e21e9f831fc76aee 9a>
New York Times 16 Jun 2011 - U.S. officials argued that the deep flaws
of Ayman al-Zawahri are likely to weaken the terrorist network.
*Misc* <http://vtjp. org/aboutus/ aboutus.htm>
*Israeli Violations of Human Rights of Lebanese Civilians*
<http://btselem. org/publication- summary/2000>
B'tselem 16 Jun 2011 - Comprehensive report, January 2000 Israel's war
against various armed groups, waged along its northern border and in
Lebanese territory, has continued for more than twenty years. Some of
this period has been relatively quiet. However, there have also been
particularly violent periods, the most violent being Operation Litani
(1978), the Lebanon War (1982), Operation Accountability (1993), and
Operation Grapes of Wrath (1996).
** <http://btselem. org/topic- page/15611- english>
*Investigation into Border Police violence against protesters*
<http://btselem. org/ota/investig ation-border- police-violence- against-proteste rs>
B'tselem 16 Jun 2011 - On Friday, 13.5.2011, Border Police officers
dispersed the protesters with severe violence even though the protesters
did not throw stones or endanger the security forces in any way. The
breaking up of the protest was documented by B'Tselem volunteers.
*15 June '11: Investigation into Border Police violence against
protesters in a-Nabi Saleh*
<http://btselem. org/topic- page/1352011- investigation- border-police- violence- against-proteste rs-nabi-saleh>
B'tselem 15 Jun 2011 - Residents of the village a-Nabi Saleh, north-west
of Ramallah, hold weekly popular protests against the takeover of the
village's land by settlers. On Friday, 13.5.2011, Border Police officers
dispersed the protesters with severe violence even though the protesters
did not throw stones or endanger the security forces in any way. During
the breaking up of the protest, documented by B'Tselem volunteers Bilal
Tamimi and Nariman Tamimi, Border Police officers beat protesters with
their hands and with clubs, kicked them, swore at them, sprayed several
people with pepper spray and arrested three female protesters using
disproportionate force.
*US talks peace and prepares for war in Sudan*
<http://www.wsws. org/articles/ 2011/jun2011/ suda-j16. shtml>
WSWS - Washington has intervened in Libya with bombing raids aimed at
overthrowing the Gaddafi regime. Now it is preparing another African
intervention and has Sudan in his sights.
*JVP Rabbinical Council's Brant Rosen on Tamimi case*
<http://jewishvoicef orpeace.org/ blog/jvp- rabbinical- councils- brant-rosen- on-tamimi- case>
Jewish Voice for Peace -
*After 'Amina': Thoughts from Cairo*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 06/after- amina-thoughts- from-cairo- 2.html>
Mondoweiss - Amina Arraf fooled me. I share this with plenty of others,
but it's still embarrassing. Now, as other straight men start to appear
from behind their lesbian masks ("Oh, but I'm a very good man . I'm just
a very bad wizard," they'll all say), we're going...
*Matan Ofan -- in Israeli military uniform -- threatens mutiny,
indiscriminate shooting to prevent 'Sudanis or Syrians' from reaching
Tel Aviv*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 06/matan- ofan-in-israeli- military- uniform-threaten s-mutiny- indiscriminate- shooting- to-prevent- sudanis-or- syrians-from- getting-to- tel-aviv. html>
Mondoweiss - The man in the video is Matanya Ofan, co-founder of Hakol
Hayehudi, a Jewish-supremacist hate-speech radio station based in Izhar
(recently investigated by Israel's police due to suspicions of being
involved in making the military look stupid - and not due to their
explicit involvement in "...
*Elbit, Rockwell Collins, Honeywell -- worst threesome ever*
<http://www.negednes hek.org/2011/ 06/elbit- rockwell- collins-honeywel l-worst-threesom e-ever/>
Neged Neshek - Elbit Systems is in talks with Honeywell and Rockwell
Collins about future cooperation for next-generation avionics. Elbit is
seeking partners for its CockpitNG system. Elbit's avionics systems are
helping to bomb Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere in addition to Gaza.
*Uzbek Defense Minister visits ADS plant in Azerbaijan*
<http://www.negednes hek.org/2011/ 06/uzbek- defense-minister -visits-ads- plant-in- azerbaijan/>
Neged Neshek - A military delegation from Uzkbekistan recently visited
Aeronautics Defense Systems' Azad factory in Baku, Azerbaijan. The
factory, built by ADS and which produces Aerostar and Orbiter UAV models
under license, began production earlier this year. This might lead to be
the first Azerbaijani exports of Israeli...
*Bahraini blogger on State Dep't tour says Hillary Clinton 'betrayed'
and 'crushed' Bahrain democracy movement*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 06/bahraini- blogger-on- state-dept- tour-says- hillary-clinton- betrayed- and-crushed- bahrain-democrac y-movement. html>
Mondoweiss - I came to Netroots Nation with a keen sense that I'd be
disappointed by what the progressive base of the Democratic Party has to
say about the Middle East, but a Bahraini writer who is on a State
Department-sponsore d tour and is afraid to publish in...
*When the Obama administration seeks to establish its pro-Israel bona
fides, it's no critics allowed*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 06/when-the- obama-administra tion-seeks- to-establish- its-pro-israel- bona-fides- its-no-critics- allowed.html>
Mondoweiss - Assistant Secretary of State Esther Brimmer, who heads the
department's Bureau of International Organization Affairs, delivered a
humdinger of a speech yesterday to the AIPAC derivative "think tank"
Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP). During her speech ,
Brimmer recounted the Obama Administration' s multi-pronged efforts to...
*Fighter jet engines stolen! Kol hakavod!*
<http://www.negednes hek.org/2011/ 06/fighter- jet-engines- stolen-kol- hakavod/>
Neged Neshek - In what is probably the best arms industry news I've
heard recently, eight F-15 and F-16 engines were recently stolen from
from the Tel Nof air base and were most likely sold for scrap metal. Kol
hakavod thieves! Keep up the good work! This might not...
*SIBAT reports records arms exports in 2010*
<http://www.negednes hek.org/2011/ 06/sibat- reports-records- arms-exports- in-2010/>
Neged Neshek - Shmaya Avieli, head of SIBAT, announced on Wednesday a
new record for Israeli exports of weaponry. The article notes his
distress and the potential ending of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Exports amounted to $7.2 billion for the year, compared to $6.9 billion
in 2010 and $...
*UC Santa Cruz students denounce anti-Palestinian hate message posted on
pro-Israel student group Facebook page*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 06/uc-santa- cruz-students- denounce- anti-palestinian -hate-message- posted-on- pro-israel- student-group- facebook- page.html>
Mondoweiss - We've been following the story of the U.S. Department of
Education's investigation into charges of anti-Semitism at UC Santa Cruz
following a series of events critical of the Israeli occupation. The
issue has been contentious on campus, and Rebecca Pierce, a Jewish
student at UC Santa...
*ADS exports first Orbiter 3 UAVs*
<http://www.negednes hek.org/2011/ 06/ads-exports- first-orbiter- 3-uavs/>
Neged Neshek - Aeronautics has exported its first Orbiter 3 tactical
drones. Ran Carmeli, division head at Aeronautics, said the systems
"brings to the unmanned systems market capabilities that did not exist
previously. A field deployed, 25 kg, electric powered UAS, can now
deliver the same [intelligence, surveillance, target...
*CIA Participated in Smear Campaign Against Juan Cole*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/richardsilv erstein/ZOfh/ %7E3/TfQ6f0kVMtA />
Tikun Olam - Glenn Carle, former CIA officer, resisted White House
efforts to investigate Juan Cole (Stephen Crowley/NYT) In 2006, I wrote
about a nasty smear campaign mounted against Juan Cole , who'd been
nominated for a prestigious endowed chair in history at Yale. Jewish
pro-Israel alumni and right-wing blogs...
*Misc 2* <http://vtjp. org/news/ news.php>
*Top 10 Reasons why Rafah opening doesn't cut it*
<http://theonlydemoc racy.org/ 2011/06/top- 10-reasons- why-rafah- opening-doesnt- cut-it/>
The Only Democracy? JVP2 16 Jun 2011 - From Gisha's Gaza Gateway, more
on the inadequacy of the new Rafah Crossing rules on the Egypt-Gaza
border. The top 10 reasons why the opening of Rafah Crossing just
doesn't cut it In no particular order of importance, we thought we'd
list some of the reasons...
*Cost of crime in Israel is $4 billion a year*
<http://www.middleea stmonitor. org.uk/news/ middle-east/ 2479-cost- of-crime- in-israel- is-4-billion- a-year>
Middle East Monitor 16 Jun 2011 - An Israeli government report has
revealed that the cost of crime in the country is more than $4 billion a
year. The report by the Ministry of Public Security says that the
financial toll is calculated according to how much crimes cost the
government, in relation...
*The Right of Return and the Right to Break the Fence*
<http://www.middleea stmonitor. org.uk/articles/ middle-east/ 2478-the- right-of- return-and- the-right- to-break- the-fence>
Middle East Monitor 16 Jun 2011 - When the 12-year-old 'Imad saw his
mother prepare some sandwiches, which they can have during the march on
15/5/2011 to the southern Lebanese borders with Palestine, he wondered
in surprise, "What is the food for? Will we have the time to eat it?
Aren't we going...
*Syria army enters towns in north*
<http://www.bbc. co.uk/go/ rss/int/news/ -/news/world- middle-east- 13802770>
BBC 16 Jun 2011 - Syrian security forces move on two northern towns as
one of the key members of the country's inner circle relinquishes his
business interests.
*Clinton 'concern' at rape reports*
<http://www.bbc. co.uk/go/ rss/int/news/ -/news/world- africa-13803556>
BBC 16 Jun 2011 - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accuses forces
loyal to the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi of using rape as a weapon of war.
*Three dead in Israel flat blast*
<http://www.bbc. co.uk/go/ rss/int/news/ -/news/world- middle-east- 13802666>
BBC 16 Jun 2011 - Three people die after a gas leak sparks a huge
explosion at a block of flats in the Israeli city of Netanya.
*Inside Syria*
<http://www.bbc. co.uk/go/ rss/int/news/ -/news/world- middle-east- 13794537>
BBC 16 Jun 2011 - Watch secretly filmed videos of protests across the
country
*Articles*
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*The Right of Return and the Right to Break the Fence*
<http://www.middleea stmonitor. org.uk/articles/ middle-east/ 2478-the- right-of- return-and- the-right- to-break- the-fence>
Dr. Mohsen M. Saleh, Middle East Monitor (MEMO) 6/16/2011
When the 12-year-old 'Imad saw his mother prepare some
sandwiches, which they can have during the march on 15/5/2011 to the
southern Lebanese borders with Palestine, he wondered in surprise, "What
is the food for? Will we have the time to eat it? Aren't we going today
to the borders of Palestine to fight the Israelis?"
The message which this kid and his peers have conveyed gave that
event another dimension. These marches of return that headed towards the
borders with Palestine, which was occupied in 1948 and became known as
Israel, turned into a landmark in the Palestinian approach to the right
of the Palestinians to return to their homeland.
The Return Marches: A Turning Point
The crowds that participated in the marches in Lebanon, Syria,
Jordan, West Bank and the Gaza Strip in addition to those killed while
trying to penetrate the border fence represented three important indicators:
First: Transforming the right of return from a theoretical
framework or a nostalgic wish to a practical program. This indicates
that Palestinian refugees are adherent to their land and that their stay
in host countries depends on their ability to return. Thus, this
indicator sends a reassuring message to the host countries which are
concerned about naturalization.
Second: The strong transition of the issue of return to the third
generation. This proves that the owners of this right have not forgotten
it but rather became more ready to die for it. They are ready to use
new, effective, and even costly methods which have not been used by
their fathers or grandfathers. The vast majority of participants were
the youth and almost all of those who were killed and wounded were the
young also. This conveys an important and decisive message in this
respect and proves that the Israeli hope "The old will die and the young
will forget" did not come true. Hence, the hopes of those concerned
about the right of return were boosted as much as the Israeli side was
frustrated.more. .
<http://www.middleea stmonitor. org.uk/articles/ middle-east/ 2478-the- right-of- return-and- the-right- to-break- the-fence>e-mail
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*Drone Diplomacy* <http://www.ameu. org/page. asp?iid=296& aid=640&pg= 1>
Geoff Simons, Americans for Middle East Understanding - AMEU 6/15/2011
April - May 2011, Volume 44, Issue 2
There are many types of international diplomacy intended to
protect and further the interests of nation states. When Hillary
Clinton, U.S. secretary of state, says that the United States will
continue to fund the Palestinian Authority only if Mahmoud Abbas remains
its leader, we witness a classic case of dollar diplomacy. And yet
despite the U.S. funding of Israel and Egypt to the tune of billions of
dollars per year, Washington was mysteriously unable to use dollar
diplomacy to end the excesses of the Mubarak dictatorship, and still
can't end the many Israeli violations of international law. Of course,
behind the diplomatic options that economic dominance provides, there is
also the unassailable diplomatic power facilitated by military muscle.
The international diplomat, when able to speak for a superpower, can
both bribe and bully.
It's called gunboat diplomacy, and it's as old as the conflict
between nations.
The term originated in the era of European imperialism, when a
show of military might off the coast was often sufficient to intimidate
other states into granting trade or territorial concessions. The United
States has long practiced gunboat diplomacy as an exercise of hegemony.
Theodore Roosevelt favored "big stick" diplomacy, and Woodrow Wilson is
judged to have practiced conventional gunboat diplomacy in 1914 when the
rebel Cándido Agular occupied Veracruz during the Mexican revolution
(countless earlier examples could be given from the 19th century).
The most dramatic example of American gunboat diplomacy was the
atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki--not to impress Japan, since
the war was already won, but to intimidate the Soviet Union. In March
1944 the Nobel laureate Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat was shocked to hear
General Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project, say: "You realize
of course that the real purpose of making the bomb is to subdue our
chief enemy, the Russians."more. .
<http://www.ameu. org/page. asp?iid=296& aid=640&pg= 1>e-mail
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*Analysis: And what about statehood?*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397126>
Daoud Kuttab, Ma'an News Agency 6/16/2011
The Palestinian strategy to achieve statehood is making
significance progress among certain international political circles, but
it is still lacking the necessary coordination and cohesion to bear the
desired results.
President Mahmoud Abbas and his West Bank Prime Minister Salam
Fayyad have succeeded in detonating the familiar anti-Palestinian
arsenal that Israel's public relations teams have employed against
Palestinian aspirations.
The rejection by the Palestinian leadership of any form of
military resistance, and the focus on building the infrastructure of a
state rather than cursing the Israelis, has placed Israel in a difficult
position internationally.
However, it is unlikely that Palestinian statehood can be achieved
simply by following this course of action.
It is sad to admit, but US President Barack Obama is right about
one thing: Going to the United Nations General Assembly and extracting a
majority vote will not, by itself, end the Israeli occupation.
A UN vote, however, could be key to statehood if it is part of a
wider strategy. But as this moment no such coherent and well-coordinated
strategy exists.
What should such a strategy look like?
Naturally, seeking national liberation requires a united domestic
front. The most prominent Palestinian factions have taken an important
step in this direction by signing the reconciliation accords in Cairo in
May, but it doesn't appear that there is serious, continuous and
concerted effort to unify the Palestinian people.more. .
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=397126>e-mail
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*Interview: Mazin Qumsiyeh on popular resistance and breaking the spell
of fear*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/rGM9qO_ Hdnk/10086>
Electronic Intifada: 16 Jun 2011 - David Cronin The Electronic Intifada
David Cronin interviews Palestinian activist Mazin Qumsiyeh, author of
the new book Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and
Empowerment , on the popular struggle in the occupied West Bank and his
experience being arrested and detained by Israeli forces.more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/rGM9qO_ Hdnk/10086>
*Israel plans to forcibly transfer 40,000 Bedouin citizens*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/x8utulDTYmM/ 10084>
Electronic Intifada: 16 Jun 2011 - Jillian Kestler-D'Amours The
Electronic Intifada A new Israeli proposal that would forcibly transfer
more than 40,000 Bedouin citizens into government-planned townships in
the Negev (Naqab) desert has raised the ire of Bedouin communities and
their supporters, who say that the plan is both discriminatory and
ignores the Bedouins' historic connection to the land.more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/x8utulDTYmM/ 10084>
*"Permanent" Despair: Did Egypt Really Open Rafah Crossing?*
<http://dissidentvoi ce.org/2011/ 06/%e2%80% 98permanent% e2%80%99- despair-did- egypt-really- open-rafah- crossing/>
Dissident Voice: 16 Jun 2011 - For most Palestinians, leaving Gaza
through Egypt is as exasperating a process as entering it. Governed by
political and cultural sensitivities, most Palestinian officials and
public figures refrain from criticizing the way Palestinians are treated
at the Rafah border. However, there is really no diplomatic language to
describe the relationship between desperate Palestinians -- some
literally fighting for their lives -- and Egyptian officials at the
crossing which separates Gaza from Egypt. "Gazans are treated like
animals at the border," a friend of mine told me. She was afraid that
her fiancé would not be allowed to leave Gaza, despite the fact that his
papers were in order. Having crossed the border myself just a few days
ago, I could not disagree with her statement. The New York Times
reported on June 8: "After days of acrimony between Hamas and Egypt over
limitations on who could pass through the Rafah...more
<http://dissidentvoi ce.org/2011/ 06/%e2%80% 98permanent% e2%80%99- despair-did- egypt-really- open-rafah- crossing/>
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Balfour's legacy:
Creating Israel from empire's needs>>edited for length...ZIONIST RELATIONS WITH NAZI GERMANYBY FARIS GLUBB © 1979Chapter 1
The Early Zionist Attitude to Anti-Semitism>> edited for length ZIONIST RELATIONS WITH NAZI GERMANYBY FARIS GLUBB © 1979Chapter 2
The Common Ground Between Zionism and Nazism [/size] >> edited for length[/quote] ZIONIST RELATIONS WITH NAZI GERMANYBY FARIS GLUBB © 1979Chapter 3
The Ha'avara Agreements [/size] The relationship between Zionism and Nazism was soon formalised in an agreement, the first of a series. "Jews emigrating to Palestine were given a special opportunity to remove their capital by the so-called Ha'avara agreement... >> edited for length[/quote] ZIONIST RELATIONS WITH NAZI GERMANYBY FARIS GLUBB © 1979Chapter 4
The 1938 Emigration AccordsThe year 1938 was to prove a triumphant one for Hitler. Its highlights included... >> edited for length ZIONIST RELATIONS WITH NAZI GERMANYBY FARIS GLUBB © 1979Chapter 5
The Ghetto Revolts History records no proclamation of revolt by the Zionist movement against Nazism in Europe. It is relevant to ask why. >>edited for length... ZIONIST RELATIONS WITH NAZI GERMANYBY FARIS GLUBB © 1979Chapter 6
Zionist Policy on the HolocaustThe accounts by Jewish historians of the ordeal of East European Jews under Nazi occupation contain a two-sided story of the heroism of resistance and the shame of collaboration.... >>edited for length...
Kastner and the Hungarian JewsThe agreements between the Zionist movement and Nazi Germany were a well-kept secret for many years. But once the scandal known as the Kastner case broke in 1953, the details began to come to light gradually. The first secret agreement to be fully revealed was the one reached between Dr. Rudolf Kastner of the Jewish Agency Rescue Committee in Budapest and colonel Adolf Eichmann (who had signed the 1938 emigration agreement with Moshe Bar-Gilad), the official responsible for settling the "Jewish question" in Hungary, in 1944. The Kastner-Eichmann agreement concerned the fate of some 800,000 Jews in Hungary.  Dr. Rudolf Kastner
www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/kastner.html Adolf Eichmann
www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/kastner.html"As a matter of fact, there was a very strong similarity between our attitudes in the S.S. and the viewpoint of these immensely idealistic Zionist leaders ...I believe that Kastner would have sacrificed a thousand or a hundred thousand of his blood to achieve his political goal... ‘You can have the others,' he would say, 'but let me have this group here.' And because Kastner rendered us a great service by helping keep the deportation camps peaceful, I would let his groups escape. After all, I was not concerned with small groups of a thousand or so Jews. . . That was the 'gentleman's agreement' I had with Kastner."
—Adolf Eichmann, 'Eichmann Confessions' published in Life magazine, 28 November and 5 December, I960
www.lastsuperpower.net/docs/nzc5thekastnercase — Nazi-Zionist Collaboration
 "If I am asked, "Could you give from the UJA moneys to
rescue Jews, 'I say, NO! and I say again NO!"
Izaak Greenbaum — head of Jewish Agency Rescue Committee
February 18, 1943. Addressed to the Zionist Executive Council.
www.jewsagainstzionism.com/antisemitism/holocaust/index.cfm "The great bulk of Hungary's Jews were without organisation. They belonged neither to Zionism nor the Jewish Agency. They belonged only to Hungary, its homes, streets, workshops, sports fields, cafes. Who could speak for these assimilated Jews, these Jews without chairmen?...The organised Jews took over the entire rescue work for the 800,000 doomed." (75) The organised Jews were the Zionists, who set up the Jewish Agency Rescue Committee. Kastner and the other officials of this Committee, like Ginsberg and Bar-Gilad, were officially recognised by the Nazis as negotiators and representatives of the Zionist movement. The truth about this so-called "Rescue Committee" did not begin to come out until an Israeli writer named Malchiel Greenwald publicly denounced Kastner as a collaborator with Nazism, maintaining that "Kastner's deed in Budapest cost us the lives of hundreds of thousands of Jews." (76) Greenwald was sued for libel not by Kastner but by the Israeli Government, whose leaders had been Kastner's superiors and had drawn up the policy he had implemented. The trials did not go well for the Israeli Government. Greenwald was cleared of the charge of libel, indicating that there was a firm basis for his accusation that Kastner's Rescue Committee had collaborated with the Nazi and helped them to exterminate the bulk of Hungarian Jewry in exchange for being allowed to save more than 600 prominent Zionists and take them to Palestine. According to the Judge in the Kastner case, Benjamin Halevi: "The Jews of the ghettoes would not have trusted the Nazi or Hungarian rulers. But they had trust in their Jewish leaders. Eichmann and others used this known fact as part of their calculated plan to mislead the Jews. They were able to deport the Jews to their extermination by the help of of Jewish leaders...Those of the Jews who tried to warn their friends of the truth were persecuted by the Jewish leaders in charge of the local 'rescue work'. The trust of the Jews in the misleading information and their lack of knowledge that their wives, children and themselves were about to be deported to the gas chambers of Auschwitz led the victims to remain quiescent in their ghettoes...The Nazis' patronage of Kastner, and their agreement to let him save 600 prominent Jews, were part of the plan to exterminate the Jews...The opportunity of rescuing prominent people appealed to him greatly. He considered the rescue of the most important Jews as a great personal success and a success for Zionism...  Malchiel Greenwald
Gruenwald (front) in the Supreme Court of Israel.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malchiel_Gruenwald"The sacrifice of the vital interests of the majority of the Jews, in order to rescue the prominents, was the basic element in the agreement between Kastner and the Nazis. This agreement fixed the division of the nation into two unequal camps, a small fragment of prominents, whom the Nazis promised Kastner to save, on the one hand, and the great majority of Hungarian Jews whom the Nazis designated for death, on the other hand. An imperative condition for the rescue of the first camp by the Nazis was that Kastner will not interfere in the action of the Nazis against the other camp and will not hamper them in its extermination. Kastner fulfilled that condition...Collaboration between the Jewish Agency Rescue Committee and the exterminators of the Jews was solidified in Budapest and Vienna. Kastner's duties were part and parcel of the SS. In addition to its Extermination Department and Looting Department, the Nazi SS opened a Rescue Department headed by Kastner." (77) Greenwald's lawyer Shmuel Tamir (who as a member of the Herut party was hoping to topple the government of the Mapai party to which Kastner belonged) next sought to bring Kastner to trial for collaboration with Nazism. For this, Tamir collected "a suitcase full of new evidence against Dr. Kastner, and God knew whom else." Before this second trial could be held, however, Kastner was assassinated by Zeev Ecksten, formerly "a paid undercover agent of the Israeli government's Intelligence Service, thereby putting an end to the danger that his appearance in court might reveal more embarrassing details. (78) At the same time that Kastner was carrying through his deal with the Nazis, Rabbi Weissmandel wrote to the Zionist movement: "We send you this special message to inform you that yesterday the Germans began the deportation of Jews from Hungary...The deported ones go to Auschwitz to be put to death with cyanide gas...This is the schedule of Auschwitz from yesterday to the end: 12,000 Jews — men, women, and children, old men, infants, healthy and sick ones — are to be suffocated daily... "And you, our brother in Palestine, in all the countries of freedom, and you, ministers of all the Kingdom, how do you keep silent in the face of this great murder? Silent while thousands on thousands, reaching now to 6 million Jews, were murdered. And silent now while tens of thousands are still being murdered and waiting to be murdered? Their destroyed hearts cry out to you for help as they bewail your cruelty. Brutal you are and murderers too you are, because of the cold-bloodedness of the silence in which you watch. Because you sit with folded arms and you do nothing, although you could stop or delay the murder of Jews at this very hour...You, our brothers, sons of Israel, are you insane? Don't you know the hell around us? For whom are you saving your money? Murderers. Madmen. Who is it that gives charity? You who toss a few pennies from your safe homes? Or we who give our blood in the depths of hell?" (79)  daithaic.blogspot.com/2009/04/auschwitz-birkenau.html From "The Auschwitz Album", the only photographic documentation of
the entire extermination process at Auschwitz. An SS has just sent the woman
with the infant to join those being sent to the crematoria; her hair is covered in
the tradition of the Orthodox Jewish wife. A man is standing between the columns
missing his pants and one shoe; this was a common occurrence in the overcrowded
boxcars. On the left stand inmates in striped camp clothing. The main gate to
Birkenau camp under which the trains pass is at the rear left of the photograph.
www.holocaustsurvivors.org/data.show.php?di=record&da=photos&ke=95 Hungarian Jews waiting in a Birch tree grove at the western end of the
Birkenau camp on May 26, 1944. The Krema IV and Krema V gas chambers,
disguised as shower rooms, are behind them, but out of camera range.
These victims have been told that they are going to take a shower before
being assigned to their barracks. They are standing across the road from
the Sauna where there was a real shower room.
www.scrapbookpages.com/auschwitzscrapbook/history/articles/Birkenau01B.htmlAnother interesting revelation of the Kastner libel case was that Kastner had intervened to save SS General Kurt Becher from being tried for war crimes. Becher had been one of the leading Nazi negotiators of deals with the Zionists in 1944. Kastner told the Nuremberg Tribunal: "There can be no doubt about it that Becher belongs to the very few SS leaders having the courage to oppose the programme of annihilation of the Jews, and trying to rescue human lives...In my opinion, when his case is judged by Allied or German authorities, Kurt Becher deserves the fullest possible consideration...I make this statement not only in my own name but also in behalf of the Jewish Agency and the Jewish World Congress. Signed, Dr. Rudolf Kastner, Official, Jewish Agency in Geneva. Former Chairman of Zionist Organisation in Hungary, 1943–1945. Representative of Joint Distribution Committee in Budapest." (80)  Dr. Rudolph Kastner
www.tabletmag.com/tag/kurt-becher/As a result of Kastner's personal intervention Becher was released from prison in Nuremberg. What sort of man was this whom Kastner, "in behalf of the Jewish Agency and the Jewish World Congress", was to save? "Kurt Becher, tall, handsome, a good horseman, a prosperous wheat broker, joined the Nazi party in 1934. He served as an SS Major in Poland, was a member of the Death Corps that worked around the clock killing Jews. He wore a death's head on his uniform cap and his boot heels were weighted with steel plates so as to clank more fearsomely when he walked with Jewish prisoners waiting for death...Becher distinguished himself as a Jew slaughterer in Poland and Russia." (81) He was appointed by Himmler as Commissar of all Nazi concentration camps.  SS General Kurt Becher
www.redcap70.net/A%20History%20of%20the%20SS%20Organisation%201924-1945.html/B/"And where is Kurt Becher now? In what place of exile, under what alias, is he hiding — as his Nazi associate Eichmann hid? No exile, no alias, and no fears are Becher's ... (His) riches are for the most part the loot extracted and tortured out of myriads of Jews — before their slaughter. He is president of many corporations and loaded down with honours. Among the many enterprises he heads up is the sale of wheat to Israel. Becher's firm, the Cologne-Handel Gesellschaft, does a fine business with Israel's government." (82) An Israeli journalist, Moshe Keren, wrote a series of articles on the Kastner case, raising a number of embarrassing questions for the Israeli authorities. Before Kastner's assassination, Keren wrote: "Kastner must be brought to trial as a Nazi collaborator And at this trial, Kastner should defend himself as a private citizen and not be defended by the Israeli Government...The echoes of the Kastner trial will keep on among us for years and years to come. They will continue to poison the air above us, like those famous historical trials after which old governments fell and new governments arose. The state of Israel will never be after this verdict what it used to be before the verdict." (83) Subsequently, "Dr. Keren flew to Germany. His intention was to interview Kurt Becher. A few days after his arrival in Germany, journalist Keren was found dead in a German hotel. The diagnosis was "heart attack." (84) The Kastner trial also revealed, for the first time, details of the "blood for trucks" incident, in which Eichmann had offered to free the Hungarian Jewish community in exchange of 10,000 lorries and other commodities. It became known that the Zionist leadership, including Dr. Chaim Weizmann, had prevented this deal for saving lives from going through and sabotaged the mission of the Jewish go-between in the deal, Joel Brand, by arranging for the British authorities to arrest him as an enemy national. (85) "This bargaining reached a dead end and concluded with the destruction of Hungarian Jewry, while the Zionist leadership purposely foiled the mission of Joel Brand." Other attempts were made to save Jewish lives in return for ransom money to the Nazis. Rabbi Weissmandel was at the forefront of these efforts. In 1942, "Wisliceny and Hochberg reached an agreement with Rav Weissmandel to stop the expulsion of Slovakian Jews for the sum of $50,000," but Sali Mayer, the leading Zionist representative in Switzerland, refused to provide such a sum. In May 1943, Weissmandel reached another agreement in principle with Wisliceny, Himmler's representative, under which deportations of Jews for extermination in all occupied areas of Europe except greater Germany and Poland would be halted against a ransom of $3 million. However, "Sali Mayer and Nathan Schwalb (representative of the Jewish Agency) were not moved by the piercing cry. Three million dollars, which could have saved a million Jews, are collected today at a joyous celebration in the United States, for the Weizmann Institute. But at that time of emergency, these nationalists — who had the influence and the money — refused to give it to the highest purpose for which the money had been raised: redeeming those doomed to die... "In only one case did Mayer find it fitting to open his purse generously. He gave money to Kastner to redeem 1,700 Hungarian Jews, 688 of whom Kastner had bought from Eichmann, and who were transferred from Hungary, via Bergen-Belsen, to Switzerland. Here, where it involved saving the elite — for the most part Zionist activists and relatives of Kastner — Sali Mayer forgot the principle of not giving money to the enemy. Rav Weissmandel pleaded in vain to save one million Jews for $3 million, while $1,000 per head was granted without hesitation In this case, also, Sali Mayer acted in accordance with the guidelines which were a cornerstone of Zionist policy: Selectivity." (86) Many years later, an attempt was made to exonerate Kastner by a man who had worked as his assistant in Budapest, Andre Biss. The book he wrote failed to demolish the solid mass of evidence against Kastner that the libel trial had uncovered, but it did make a further interesting revelation: that Kastner's "Rescue Committee", apart from its other relationships, had also closely cooperated with German military intelligence, headed by Admiral Canaris. "For a long time past (Canaris' men) had been in contact with Jewish circles and especially with the Zionists and the representative of the American Jewish welfare organisation known as the American Joint Distribution Committee. "In 1943, Samuel Springmann, who was Kastner's closest collaborator, got an invitation from his friends in Palestine to go and see them and to make a detailed report on the situation. It was he who had established and kept up the contacts already mentioned between Zionists and the member of Cararis' German counter-espionage network Springman, through discreet and efficient work, had obtained important results." (87) References for Chapter Seven 75. Ben Hecht, Perfidy (New York, 1961) pp. 58–59. 76. Official charge sheet, Criminal Case 124/53, District Court, Jerusalem. 77. Judgement given on 22 June 1955, Protocol of Criminal Case 124/53 in District Court, Jerusalem. 78. Hecht, op. cit., pp. 202–208 79. Letter to Zionist representatives, 15 May 1944. 80. Affidavit before Mr. Benno H. Selcke Jr., of American Evidence Division, International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 4 August 1947. 81. Hecht, op. cit., p. 67. 82. Ibid, p. 84. 83. Haaretz, 14 July 1955. 84. Hecht, op. cit., p. 185. 85. See Ibid., pp. 208–250 and Shonfeld, op. cit., pp. 36–39 for details of Joel Brand story, as well as Alex Weissberg, Die Geschichte von Joel Brand (Cologne, 1956). 86. Shonfeld, op. cit., pp. 76, 82–86. 87. Andre Biss, A Million Jews to Save (London, 1975) pp. 21, 37. ................ ZIONIST RELATIONS WITH NAZI GERMANYBy Faris Glubb
© 1979 www.amazon.com/Zionist-Relations-Germany-Faris-Glubb/dp/0911026118These are links to each corresponding chapter:ZIONIST RELATIONS WITH NAZI GERMANYTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter One — The Early Zionist Attitude to Anti-SemitismChapter Two — The Common Ground Between Zionism and NazismChapter Three — The Ha'avara AgreementsChapter Four — The 1938 Emigration AccordsChapter Five — The Ghetto RevoltsChapter Six — Zionist Policy on the HolocaustChapter Seven — Kastner and the Hungarian JewsChapter Eight — The Concealment of EvidenceChapter Nine — The Irgun and NazismChapter Ten — Assessment of Zionist Policy towards NazismIntroduction
Despite the appearance of large numbers of books on Nazi Germany's barbaric treatment of the European Jews, there is widespread public ignorance on one important aspect of this question: the relationship between the Zionist movement and Nazi Germany. The information on this subject is available, but has not yet been gathered together in a single comprehensive study. (Note: You may also refer to 51 Documents of Zionist Collaboration With The Nazis edited by Lenni Brenner and A Threat From Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism by Yakov M. Rabkin.) This study is intended, at least partially, to remedy this deficiency.
Owing to the delicate nature of this subject, and the Zionist tendency to brand any non-Zionist or anti-Zionist viewpoint as "anti-Semitic", all the material on Zionist-Nazi relations in this study is taken from exclusively Jewish sources. The writers quoted cover a wide spectrum of views, from extreme Zionist to anti-Zionist, with various shades in between. The reader will thus be able to form an accurate and objective opinion on the basis of evidence presented by leading Jewish historians.
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"...The children, they're not the enemy at the moment.
The enemy is the blood inside them.
The enemy is the growing up to be a ... that could become dangerous.
And because of that the children were included as well."
—SS Private Oskar Gröning: SS Garrison, Auschwitz*
daithaic.blogspot.com/2009/04/auschwitz-birkenau.html     Dead Palestinian babies and bombed mosques—
IDF fashion 2009By Uri Blau
Haaretz.comThe office at the Adiv fabric-printing shop in south Tel Aviv handles a constant stream of customers, many of them soldiers in uniform, who come to order custom clothing featuring their unit's insignia, usually accompanied by a slogan and drawing of their choosing. Elsewhere on the premises, the sketches are turned into plates used for imprinting the ordered items, mainly T-shirts and baseball caps, but also hoodies, fleece jackets and pants. A young Arab man from Jaffa supervises the workers who imprint the words and pictures, and afterward hands over the finished product. Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children's graves, a gun aimed at a child and bombed-out mosques - these are a few examples of the images Israel Defense Forces soldiers design these days to print on shirts they order to mark the end of training, or of field duty. The slogans accompanying the drawings are not exactly anemic either: A T-shirt for infantry snipers bears the inscription "Better use Durex," next to a picture of a dead Palestinian baby, with his weeping mother and a teddy bear beside him. A sharpshooter's T-shirt from the Givati Brigade's Shaked battalion shows a pregnant Palestinian woman with a bull's-eye superimposed on her belly, with the slogan, in English, "1 shot, 2 kills." A "graduation" shirt for those who have completed another snipers course depicts a Palestinian baby, who grows into a combative boy and then an armed adult, with the inscription, "No matter how it begins, we'll put an end to it." There are also plenty of shirts with blatant sexual messages. For example, the Lavi battalion produced a shirt featuring a drawing of a soldier next to a young woman with bruises, and the slogan, "Bet you got raped!" A few of the images underscore actions whose existence the army officially denies - such as "confirming the kill" (shooting a bullet into an enemy victim's head from close range, to ensure he is dead), or harming religious sites, or female or child non-combatants. In many cases, the content is submitted for approval to one of the unit's commanders. The latter, however, do not always have control over what gets printed, because the artwork is a private initiative of soldiers that they never hear about. Drawings or slogans previously banned in certain units have been approved for distribution elsewhere. For example, shirts declaring, "We won't chill 'til we confirm the kill" were banned in the past (the IDF claims that the practice doesn't exist), yet the Haruv battalion printed some last year. The slogan "Let every Arab mother know that her son's fate is in my hands!" had previously been banned for use on another infantry unit's shirt. A Givati soldier said this week, however, that at the end of last year, his platoon printed up dozens of shirts, fleece jackets and pants bearing this slogan. "It has a drawing depicting a soldier as the Angel of Death, next to a gun and an Arab town," he explains. "The text was very powerful. The funniest part was that when our soldier came to get the shirts, the man who printed them was an Arab, and the soldier felt so bad that he told the girl at the counter to bring them to him." Does the design go to the commanders for approval? The Givati soldier: "Usually the shirts undergo a selection process by some officer, but in this case, they were approved at the level of platoon sergeant. We ordered shirts for 30 soldiers and they were really into it, and everyone wanted several items and paid NIS 200 on average." What do you think of the slogan that was printed? "I didn't like it so much, but most of the soldiers wanted it." Many controversial shirts have been ordered by graduates of snipers courses, which bring together soldiers from various units. In 2006, soldiers from the "Carmon Team" course for elite-unit marksmen printed a shirt with a drawing of a knife-wielding Palestinian in the crosshairs of a gun sight, and the slogan, "You've got to run fast, run fast, run fast, before it's all over." Below is a drawing of Arab women weeping over a grave and the words: "And afterward they cry, and afterward they cry." [The inscriptions are riffs on a popular song.] Another sniper's shirt also features an Arab man in the crosshairs, and the announcement, "Everything is with the best of intentions." G., a soldier in an elite unit who has done a snipers course, explained that, "it's a type of bonding process, and also it's well known that anyone who is a sniper is messed up in the head. Our shirts have a lot of double entendres, for example: 'Bad people with good aims.' Every group that finishes a course puts out stuff like that." When are these shirts worn? G. "These are shirts for around the house, for jogging, in the army. Not for going out. Sometimes people will ask you what it's about." Of the shirt depicting a bull's-eye on a pregnant woman, he said: "There are people who think it's not right, and I think so as well, but it doesn't really mean anything. I mean it's not like someone is gonna go and shoot a pregnant woman." What is the idea behind the shirt from July 2007, which has an image of a child with the slogan "Smaller - harder!"? "It's a kid, so you've got a little more of a problem, morally, and also the target is smaller." Do your superiors approve the shirts before printing? "Yes, although one time they rejected some shirt that was too extreme. I don't remember what was on it." These shirts also seem pretty extreme. Why draw crosshairs over a child - do you shoot kids? 'We came, we saw' "As a sniper, you get a lot of extreme situations. You suddenly see a small boy who picks up a weapon and it's up to you to decide whether to shoot. These shirts are half-facetious, bordering on the truth, and they reflect the extreme situations you might encounter. The one who-honest-to-God sees the target with his own eyes - that's the sniper." Have you encountered a situation like that? "Fortunately, not involving a kid, but involving a woman - yes. There was someone who wasn't holding a weapon, but she was near a prohibited area and could have posed a threat." What did you do? "I didn't take it" (i.e., shoot). You don't regret that, I imagine. "No. Whomever I had to shoot, I shot." A shirt printed up just this week for soldiers of the Lavi battalion, who spent three years in the West Bank, reads: "We came, we saw, we destroyed!" - alongside images of weapons, an angry soldier and a Palestinian village with a ruined mosque in the center. A shirt printed after Operation Cast Lead in Gaza for Battalion 890 of the Paratroops depicts a King Kong-like soldier in a city under attack. The slogan is unambiguous: "If you believe it can be fixed, then believe it can be destroyed!" Y., a soldier/yeshiva student, designed the shirt. "You take whoever [in the unit] knows how to draw and then you give it to the commanders before printing," he explained. What is the soldier holding in his hand? Y. "A mosque. Before I drew the shirt I had some misgivings, because I wanted it to be like King Kong, but not too monstrous. The one holding the mosque - I wanted him to have a more normal-looking face, so it wouldn't look like an anti-Semitic cartoon. Some of the people who saw it told me, 'Is that what you've got to show for the IDF? That it destroys homes?' I can understand people who look at this from outside and see it that way, but I was in Gaza and they kept emphasizing that the object of the operation was to wreak destruction on the infrastructure, so that the price the Palestinians and the leadership pay will make them realize that it isn't worth it for them to go on shooting. So that's the idea of 'we're coming to destroy' in the drawing." According to Y., most of these shirts are worn strictly in an army context, not in civilian life. "And within the army people look at it differently," he added. "I don't think I would walk down the street in this shirt, because it would draw fire. Even at my yeshiva I don't think people would like it." Y. also came up with a design for the shirt his unit printed at the end of basic training. It shows a clenched fist shattering the symbol of the Paratroops Corps. Where does the fist come from? "It's reminiscent of [Rabbi Meir] Kahane's symbol. I borrowed it from an emblem for something in Russia, but basically it's supposed to look like Kahane's symbol, the one from 'Kahane Was Right' - it's a sort of joke. Our company commander is kind of gung-ho." Was the shirt printed? "Yes. It was a company shirt. We printed about 100 like that." This past January, the "Night Predators" demolitions platoon from Golani's Battalion 13 ordered a T-shirt showing a Golani devil detonating a charge that destroys a mosque. An inscription above it says, "Only God forgives." One of the soldiers in the platoon downplays it: "It doesn't mean much, it's just a T-shirt from our platoon. It's not a big deal. A friend of mine drew a picture and we made it into a shirt." What's the idea behind "Only God forgives"? The soldier: "It's just a saying." No one had a problem with the fact that a mosque gets blown up in the picture? "I don't see what you're getting at. I don't like the way you're going with this. Don't take this somewhere you're not supposed to, as though we hate Arabs." After Operation Cast Lead, soldiers from that battalion printed a T-shirt depicting a vulture sexually penetrating Hamas' prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, accompanied by a particularly graphic slogan. S., a soldier in the platoon that ordered the shirt, said the idea came from a similar shirt, printed after the Second Lebanon War, that featured Hassan Nasrallah instead of Haniyeh. "They don't okay things like that at the company level. It's a shirt we put out just for the platoon," S. explained. What's the problem with this shirt? S.: "It bothers some people to see these things, from a religious standpoint ..." How did people who saw it respond? "We don't have that many Orthodox people in the platoon, so it wasn't a problem. It's just something the guys want to put out. It's more for wearing around the house, and not within the companies, because it bothers people. The Orthodox mainly. The officers tell us it's best not to wear shirts like this on the base." The sketches printed in recent years at the Adiv factory, one of the largest of its kind in the country, are arranged in drawers according to the names of the units placing the orders: Paratroops, Golani, air force, sharpshooters and so on. Each drawer contains hundreds of drawings, filed by year. Many of the prints are cartoons and slogans relating to life in the unit, or inside jokes that outsiders wouldn't get (and might not care to, either), but a handful reflect particular aggressiveness, violence and vulgarity. Print-shop manager Haim Yisrael, who has worked there since the early 1980s, said Adiv prints around 1,000 different patterns each month, with soldiers accounting for about half. Yisrael recalled that when he started out, there were hardly any orders from the army. "The first ones to do it were from the Nahal brigade," he said. "Later on other infantry units started printing up shirts, and nowadays any course with 15 participants prints up shirts." From time to time, officers complain. "Sometimes the soldiers do things that are inside jokes that only they get, and sometimes they do something foolish that they take to an extreme," Yisrael explained. "There have been a few times when commanding officers called and said, 'How can you print things like that for soldiers?' For example, with shirts that trashed the Arabs too much. I told them it's a private company, and I'm not interested in the content. I can print whatever I like. We're neutral. There have always been some more extreme and some less so. It's just that now more people are making shirts." Race to be unique Evyatar Ben-Tzedef, a research associate at the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism and former editor of the IDF publication Maarachot, said the phenomenon of custom-made T-shirts is a product of "the infantry's insane race to be unique. I, for example, had only one shirt that I received after the Yom Kippur War. It said on it, 'The School for Officers,' and that was it. What happened since then is a product of the decision to assign every unit an emblem and a beret. After all, there used to be very few berets: black, red or green. This changed in the 1990s. [The shirts] developed because of the fact that for bonding purposes, each unit created something that was unique to it. "These days the content on shirts is sometimes deplorable," Ben-Tzedef explained. "It stems from the fact that profanity is very acceptable and normative in Israel, and that there is a lack of respect for human beings and their environment, which includes racism aimed in every direction." Yossi Kaufman, who moderates the army and defense forum on the Web site Fresh, served in the Armored Corps from 1996 to 1999. "I also drew shirts, and I remember the first one," he said. "It had a small emblem on the front and some inside joke, like, 'When we die, we'll go to heaven, because we've already been through hell.'" Kaufman has also been exposed to T-shirts of the sort described here. "I know there are shirts like these," he says. "I've heard and also seen a little. These are not shirts that soldiers can wear in civilian life, because they would get stoned, nor at a battalion get-together, because the battalion commander would be pissed off. They wear them on very rare occasions. There's all sorts of black humor stuff, mainly from snipers, such as, 'Don't bother running because you'll die tired' - with a drawing of a Palestinian boy, not a terrorist. There's a Golani or Givati shirt of a soldier raping a girl, and underneath it says, 'No virgins, no terror attacks.' I laughed, but it was pretty awful. When I was asked once to draw things like that, I said it wasn't appropriate." The IDF Spokesman's Office comments on the phenomenon: "Military regulations do not apply to civilian clothing, including shirts produced at the end of basic training and various courses. The designs are printed at the soldiers' private initiative, and on civilian shirts. The examples raised by Haaretz are not in keeping with the values of the IDF spirit, not representative of IDF life, and are in poor taste. Humor of this kind deserves every condemnation and excoriation. The IDF intends to take action for the immediate eradication of this phenomenon. To this end, it is emphasizing to commanding officers that it is appropriate, among other things, to take discretionary and disciplinary measures against those involved in acts of this sort." Shlomo Tzipori, a lieutenant colonel in the reserves and a lawyer specializing in martial law, said the army does bring soldiers up on charges for offenses that occur outside the base and during their free time. According to Tzipori, slogans that constitute an "insult to the army or to those in uniform" are grounds for court-martial, on charges of "shameful conduct" or "disciplinary infraction," which are general clauses in judicial martial law. Sociologist Dr. Orna Sasson-Levy, of Bar-Ilan University, author of "Identities in Uniform: Masculinities and Femininities in the Israeli Military," said that the phenomenon is "part of a radicalization process the entire country is undergoing, and the soldiers are at its forefront. I think that ever since the second intifada there has been a continual shift to the right. The pullout from Gaza and its outcome - the calm that never arrived - led to a further shift rightward. "This tendency is most strikingly evident among soldiers who encounter various situations in the territories on a daily basis. There is less meticulousness than in the past, and increasing callousness. There is a perception that the Palestinian is not a person, a human being entitled to basic rights, and therefore anything may be done to him." Could the printing of clothing be viewed also as a means of venting aggression? Sasson-Levy: "No. I think it strengthens and stimulates aggression and legitimizes it. What disturbs me is that a shirt is something that has permanence. The soldiers later wear it in civilian life; their girlfriends wear it afterward. It is not a statement, but rather something physical that remains, that is out there in the world. Beyond that, I think the link made between sexist views and nationalist views, as in the 'Screw Haniyeh' shirt, is interesting. National chauvinism and gender chauvinism combine and strengthen one another. It establishes a masculinity shaped by violent aggression toward women and Arabs; a masculinity that considers it legitimate to speak in a crude and violent manner toward women and Arabs." Col. (res.) Ron Levy began his military service in the Sayeret Matkal elite commando force before the Six-Day War. He was the IDF's chief psychologist, and headed the army's mental health department in the 1980s. Levy: "I'm familiar with things of this sort going back 40, 50 years, and each time they take a different form. Psychologically speaking, this is one of the ways in which soldiers project their anger, frustration and violence. It is a certain expression of things, which I call 'below the belt.'" Do you think this a good way to vent anger? Levy: "It's safe. But there are also things here that deviate from the norm, and you could say that whoever is creating these things has reached some level of normality. He gives expression to the fact that what is considered abnormal today might no longer be so tomorrow." www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072466.htmlwww.google.com/search?q=Dead+Palestinian+babies+and+bombed+mosques  .............. *SS Private Oskar Gröning
"It was not long before I was assigned to supervise the luggage collection of an incoming transport. When this was over, it was just like a fairground, there was lots of rubbish left and amongst this rubbish were ill people, those unable to walk. And the way these people were treated really horrified me. For example, a child who was lying there naked was simply pulled by the legs and chucked into a lorry to be driven away, and when it screamed like a sick chicken, then they bashed it against the edge of the lorry, so it shut up.
We were convinced by our world view that we had been betrayed by the entire world, and that there was a great conspiracy of the Jews against us. The children, they're not the enemy at the moment. The enemy is the blood inside them. The enemy is the growing up to be a Jew that could become dangerous. And because of that the children were included as well.
I see it as my task, now at my age, to face up to these things that I experienced and to oppose the Holocaust deniers who claim that Auschwitz never happened.
And that's why I am here today.
Because I want to tell those deniers: I have seen the gas chambers, I have seen the crematoria, I have seen the burning pits - and I want you to believe me that these atrocities happened.
I was there."
Oskar Gröning: SS Garrison, Auschwitz
daithaic.blogspot.com/2009/04/auschwitz-birkenau.html
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Post by ninathedog on Jun 18, 2011 22:42:21 GMT 4
Traditional Palestinian Clothing —
Threads of Pride! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee8WytNmbRwUploaded by hit004541 on Feb 19, 2009
Pictures of Palestinian folk art and song by my favourite palestinian singer Moneim Adwan.
More information about the pictures and the clothing please do visit www.palestineheritage.org
Free Palestine
فـلـسـطـيـن الـحـرة......... The Culture of Palestine www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJXC046hzXQ(many thanks to Hamde A)Uploaded by shishi87 on Jul 28, 2007
Palestinian culture is comprised of a blend of Eastern Mediterranean influences.
Being Levantines, Palestinians share commonalities with nearby Levantine Arabs (Lebanese,
Syrians, and Jordanians). Palestinians, although Arabized today, are genetically an indigenous
Semitic (non-Arab) people which descended from the native Canaanites/Phoenicians
and thereby mixed with their conquerers (Philistines, Hebrews, Egyptians, Babylonians,
Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Persians, Arabs, Crusaders, and Ottoman Turks).
Over half of Palestinians are in diaspora, and found outside of Palestine. The population of
Jordan is 2/3 of Palestinian heritage. Most Palestinian refugees can be found other Middle Eastern
countries, and North and South America. Many are also in Europe.
Language:
Arabic (official), Aramaic, Hebrew, and Armenian.
Most Palestinians speak Levantine Arabic, a dialect of Arabic spoken in Syria, Palestine, western Jordan
and Lebanon. Palestinian rural dialects exhibit several distinctive features (particularly the
pronunciation of qaaf as kaaf) which distinguish them from other Arabic varieties, but Palestinian
urban dialects more closely resemble northern Levantine dialects, i.e., those of Syria and Lebanon.
The Bedouins of Palestine, however, are more securely known to be Arab by ancestry as
well as by culture; their distinctively conservative dialects and pronunciation of qaaf as gaaf
group them with other Bedouin across the Arab world and confirm their separate history.
In a number of villages in the Galilee (e.g. Maghar), and particularly, though not exclusively among
the Druze, the qāf is actually pronounced qaaf as in Classical Arabic.
Religion:
Currently, no reliable data are available for the worldwide Palestinian population. But an estimated
percentage suggests 60% Muslim (mainly Sunni, but also a few Sufis), 30% Christian
(predominantly Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and others) and 10% Other (i.e. Druze, Baha'i,
Jewish, Samaritan, etc).
However, within the West Bank and Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Academic Society for
the Study of International Affairs, the (non-Jewish) Palestinian population is 97% Muslim and 3% Christian;
there are also about 350 Samaritans and a few thousand Jews (not including Zionist* settlers).* Revelation 2:9 — King James Version (KJV)
Rev 2:8 And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write;
These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
Rev 2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty,
(but thou art rich) and the blasphemy of them which
say they are Jews, and are not, but [are] the synagogue of Satan.
Rev 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold,
the devil shall cast [some] of you into prison, that ye may be tried;
and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and
I will give thee a crown of life.
Rev 2:11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the
churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
......... Deir Yassin Massacre Documentary —
Testimony from a survivorwww.youtube.com/watch?v=prLPvqttW9c
Uploaded by Halomaster7 on Dec 12, 2006
Testimonial video about the Deir Yassin Massacre committed by the Zionist terrorists in 1948.
......... Palestine before 1948 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGBoGKPZlQE&NR=1
Uploaded by rami1983 on Dec 9, 2007
The video contains pictures of different Palestinian cities during the 1920's and 1930's, before the
creation of the state of israel by the zionists in 1948.
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Post by ninathedog on Jun 18, 2011 23:11:07 GMT 4
'Judaism Yes, Zionism No':
Ultra-Orthodox Jews march against Israel www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA5is7IcEqAUploaded by RussiaToday on Jun 11, 2011
The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East still shows little sign of a peaceful resolution. But in New York, there's a group of ultra orthodox Jews, who are devoted to the Palestinian struggle. And as Marina Portnaya discovered, they believe an end to the State of Israel is the only solution.
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Post by ninathedog on Jun 18, 2011 23:19:34 GMT 4
 ......... U.S. Boat to Gaza – Emergency Response PlansIn late June, a U.S. flagged ship called The Audacity of Hope will join the 2nd Freedom Flotilla – Stay Human as people from 22 nations set sail to Gaza challenging the Israeli naval blockade. Though the flotilla has the right under international law to do exactly what it is doing and has made abundantly clear its commitment to nonviolence, the government of Israel has publicly stated that they are prepared to act illegally and violently and take severe, even potentially life-threatening, action against the boats and their passengers. The U.S. Boat to Gaza organizing committee urges people throughout this country to plan now for Emergency Response actions. The power of such actions will be the number of cities they are held in and the numbers of people who participate. Now is the time to start planning. Once you have your local plans in place be sure to contact the U.S. Boat to Gaza organizing committee. We will add your information to our website, and provide a link to your site. Send your information to us at ustogaza@gmail.com First step: Now is the time to encourage people to sign onto the U.S. Boat to Gaza email alert list, as well as our Twitter and Facebook accounts, so they can receive the most up-to-date information directly. Elements of your emergency response plans 1) Public protest activities * The goal is to be as visible as possible – both to the public generally and to the media. * As a local organizer you will know the best place to ask people to gather. Possible places include: - Israeli consulate or other agencyU.S. federal building - well-trafficked, major intersection - major transportation hub * Think about what time of day will be easiest for large numbers of people to come out, to get media coverage and for the largest number of people to see your activity. 2) Media work * Be sure to have a list of media outlets and reporters in your area ready ahead of time. * Inform the media of any public activities and protests you are planning. * Monitor your local media to see if they are covering the story, and if so how. If they are not covering it, or not covering it well, call them! * Ask people to write letters to the editor and to call into radio talk shows. * The aim is to make sure the story is being covered, and being covered accurately! 3) Pressure on the Israeli and U.S. government * It will be important that both the Israeli government and the U.S. government hear from as many people as possible, as quickly as possible. * Calls, email messages and faxes should go to the U.S. government: the State Department, the White and to your own Senators and House Representatives. * Calls, email messages and faxes should also go directly to the Israeli government. * By Saturday, June 18th we will have more detailed contact information posted on our website….please be sure to check back then. ustogaza.org/......... Audacity of Hope — U.S. Boat to Gaza —
Interview with Chris Hedges www.youtube.com/watch?v=orE27ysrzxI
Uploaded by ustogaza1 on Aug 11, 2010
Interview with Chris Hedges, author, journalist and former New York Times Middle East Bureau Chief. During fundraising cruise in the New York City harbor on August 5th to raise funds for a U.S. ship to join the next International Flotilla to break the blockade of Gaza.......... Ken Mayers, U.S. Boat to Gaza Passenger www.youtube.com/watch?v=-25FAiVk4rg
Uploaded by USBOATTOGAZA on Jun 14, 2011
Passenger Ken Mayers talks about why he is going aboard the US Boat to Gaza with the Stay Human Flotilla at the end of the month.
Bio: Ken Mayers was commissioned as an officer in the United States Marine Corps upon his graduation from Princeton in 1958.
He resigned that commission at the end of 1966 in disgust with American foreign policy and returned to the University of California at Berkeley where he earned his Ph.D. in Political Science. His doctoral dissertation was a policy analysis of minority business enterprise.
He has been a peace and justice activist ever since, at the same time progressing through four successive careers. He taught political economy at Bennington College for six years, then worked in an interdisciplinary "skunk works" at Digital Equipment Corporation for 13 years followed by eight years as an independent consultant.
For the past 12 years he has been the director of member relations for two international professional alliances. In the early 1980′s he and his late wife founded the Bennington VT chapter of the Beyond War Movement. In 1986 he joined Veterans for Peace (VFP) and in 2002 he founded the Santa Fe Chapter of VFP. He served on VFP's national board of directors from 2004 to 2009, including five years as national treasurer.
In December of 2009, Ken was part of the international Gaza Freedom March that got stuck in Cairo and protested in Tahrir Square and other Cairo locations for a week. He is currently a member of VFP's Israel-Palestine Working Group.
Ken is a fourth generation American of Jewish descent (non-practicing). His mother's extended family lost at least 17 members in the holocaust.
Ken is convinced that the Israeli government has learned the wrong lessons from those tragic years. He wants to demonstrate to his Palestinian brothers and sisters that even someone in his situation supports their desire for freedom. Since the government of Egypt turned him back from Gaza a year ago, he is determined to try again now.......... Ray McGovern, U.S. Boat to Gaza Passenger www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_A4sZTNiU4Uploaded by USBOATTOGAZA on Jun 14, 2011
Passenger Ray McGovern talks about why he is going aboard the US Boat to Gaza with the Stay Human Flotilla at the end of the month.
Bio: An Army infantry/intelligence officer in the early 60s, Ray McGovern then served as a CIA analyst from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George H. W. Bush. Under President Ronald Reagan, McGovern briefed the President's Daily Brief and other intelligence one-on-one to Vice President Bush and other senior officials.
Ray now works with Tell the Word, a faith-based ministry in inner-city Washington.
Born before WW-II, he experienced what happens when intimidated majorities shield their eyes from injustices like the illegal blockade of Gaza and the internment of 1.5 million Palestinians.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," wrote Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was, of course, right.
And so was Gen. David Petraeus in warning Congress last year that the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians "foments anti-American sentiment, due to a perception of U.S. favoritism for Israel" [and that] "militant groups exploit that anger to mobilize support."......... Hedy Epstein, U.S. Boat to Gaza Passengerwww.youtube.com/watch?v=FLZx5NULSzoUploaded by USBOATTOGAZA on Jun 14, 2011
Passenger Hedy Epstein talks about why she is going aboard the US Boat to Gaza with the Stay Human Flotilla at the end of the month.
Bio: Hedy Epstein was born in Germany in 1924. She was 8 years old when Hitler came to power in 1933.
In 1939, she left on a Kindertransport (children's transport) for England. Her parents and other family members perished during the Holocaust.
After World War II she returned to Germany and worked as a research analyst at the Nuremberg trial of the Nazi doctors who performed medical experiments on concentration camp inmates.
Epstein came to the U.S. in 1948, and quickly became involved in civil rights, human rights and peace related issues, both professionally and in her personal life.
In 1989, she visited Guatemala, Nicaragua and Cambodia as a peace delegate.
Since 2003, she has visited the Israeli occupied West Bank five times, and has made four attempts to visit Gaza by land and sea.
She has written and traveled extensively in the U.S. and Europe to speak about social justice issues, with an emphasis on the Israel/Palestine issue. In 1999, her autobiography -- "Erinnern ist nicht genug" (Remembering is Not Enough) was published in German, in Germany.
Epstein will be on the U.S. Boat to Gaza, part of Flotilla 2, her fifth attempt to reach Gaza.......... Henry Norr, U.S. Boat to Gaza Passengerwww.youtube.com/watch?v=OWoZV-uIvesUploaded by USBOATTOGAZA on Jun 14, 2011
Passenger Henry Norr talks about why he is going aboard the US Boat to Gaza with the Stay Human Flotilla at the end of the month.
Bio: Henry Norr, 65, is a retired journalist and activist.
As a child going to Hebrew school and Sunday school at a Conservative Jewish temple in northern Massachusetts, he collected nickels and dimes for the Jewish National Fund -- money he now realizes was used largely to cover up the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.
Since 2002, he has spent a total of six months as a human-rights volunteer in the occupied Palestinian territories, including stints with the International Solidarity Movement in the Gaza Strip, in the Wall-divided West Bank village of Jayyous, and in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Hebron, where Jewish settlers daily terrorize Palestinian residents.
He was fired from his job as a technology columnist with the San Francisco Chronicle in 2003 in response to his support for Palestinian rights and his arrest in a demonstration opposing the U.S. attack on Iraq.......... Medea Benjamin, U.S. Boat to Gaza Passenger www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocIAQAh2jUUploaded by USBOATTOGAZA on Jun 13, 2011
Passenger Medea Benjamin talks about why she is going aboard the US Boat to Gaza with the Stay Human Flotilla at the end of the month.
Bio: Medea Benjamin is a cofounder of both CODEPINK and the international human rights organization Global Exchange.
She has been an advocate for social justice for more than 30 years. Described as "one of America's most committed — and most effective — fighters for human rights" by New York Newsday, and called "one of the high profile leaders of the peace movement" by the Los Angeles Times, Medea was one of 1,000 exemplary women from 140 countries nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the millions of women who do the essential work of peace worldwide.
In 2010 she received the Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Prize from the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Since the September 11, 2001 tragedy, Medea has been working to promote a U.S. foreign policy that would respect human rights and gain us allies instead of contributing to violence and undermining our international reputation.
She has traveled and written extensively about Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Israel and Palestine.
She has led five delegations to Gaza, bringing humanitarian aid.
A former economist and nutritionist with the United Nations and World Health Organization, Benjamin is the author/editor of eight books. Her articles appear regularly in outlets such as The Huffington Post, CommonDreams, Alternet, TruthOut, the Daily Kos and OpEd News.......... Ridgely Fuller, U.S. Boat to Gaza Passengerwww.youtube.com/watch?v=hGceK7aE-ooUploaded by USBOATTOGAZA on Jun 14, 2011
Passenger Ridgely Fuller talks about why she is going aboard the US Boat to Gaza with the Stay Human Flotilla at the end of the month.
Bio: During my first significant trip to Gaza, John Ging, former head of the UN refugee aid effort in Gaza reflected that citizens of the world need to step in when their governments fail to resolve critical international issues. The Second Freedom Flotilla with thousands of world citizens representing some 22 countries represent that effort: coming together to insist that Israel ends its illegal blockade of Gaza and to demand that international law and human rights be applied equally to all people.
I am a social worker with an additional master's degree in international relations whose passion for Palestine developed during my first trip to the area in 2002.
This study trip was inspired by my questioning the Jewish narrative deeply ingrained into my persona as the result of living in Germany and Holland as a child.
I simply couldn't believe that a people who had suffered so much could condone the massive violations of Palestinian human rights that had begun to appear in the media: the theft of land, the bulldozing of homes and the breaking of Palestinian children's' arms.
My first witness trip was then followed by others: an International Women's Human Rights marched organized by Israeli and Palestinian women in 2003 and 2.5 months in the West Bank of Palestine in 2008.
As a social worker interested in children I also traveled with Code Pink to witness the effect of the Israeli invasion on Gaza youth in 2009 and returned in 2010 to work with mental health workers and young adults building resiliency in the Gaza youth.
On a personal note, I am proud to be a member of the Freedom Flotilla and sail on the US The Audacity of Hope in the name of equality for all people; for the young adults of Gaza who, living in a virtual prison, have given up their own dreams to cheerfully rebuild their people with incredible inner resources and for the many, many Americans whose demands of justice for Palestine are ignored by our own government.......... Kathy Kelly, U.S. Boat to Gaza Passengerwww.youtube.com/watch?v=h4b8qY-B840
Uploaded by USBOATTOGAZA on Jun 14, 2011
Passenger Kathy Kelly talks about why she is going aboard the US Boat to Gaza with the Stay Human Flotilla at the end of the month.
Bio: Kathy Kelly, 58, co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence, (www.vcnv.org) a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare.
Since May of 2010, she traveled to Afghanistan four times, with delegations intent on learning more about conditions faced by ordinary people in Afghanistan, a country afflicted by three decades of warfare. Voices for Creative Nonviolence has been working closely with the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers in search of non-military solutions to end the war.
In 2009, she lived in Gaza during the Operation Cast Lead bombing. She was also in Lebanon during and after the 2006 Israeli assaults on southern Lebanon.
From 1996 -- 2003, Voices activists formed 70 delegations that openly defied economic sanctions by bringing medicines to children and families in Iraq. Kathy and her companions lived in Baghdad throughout the 2003 "Shock and Awe" bombing. She was sentenced to one year in federal prison for planting corn on nuclear missile silo sites (1988-89) and spent three months in prison, in 2004, for crossing the line at Fort Benning's military training school.
She and her companions at the Voices home/office in Chicago believe that non-violence necessarily involves simplicity, service, sharing of resources and non-violent direct action in resistance to war and oppression.
......... Gail Miller, U.S. Boat to Gaza Passengerwww.youtube.com/watch?v=SgQQdAYyLUYUploaded by gailfrommyphone on Jun 17, 2011
Passenger Gail Miller talks about why she is going aboard the US Boat to Gaza with the Stay Human Flotilla at the end of the month.
......... Robert Neiman, U.S. Boat to Gaza Passengerwww.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WvSqf-OEONMUploaded by USBOATTOGAZA on Jun 14, 2011
Passenger Robert Neiman talks about why he is going aboard the US Boat to Gaza with the Stay Human Flotilla at the end of the month.
"I am the Policy Director of Just Foreign Policy (www.justforeignpolicy.org), which works to reform U.S. foreign policy to reflect the values and interests of the majority of Americans so the U.S. complies fully with international law and supports peace, diplomacy, and negotiated resolutions of conflict..
The blockade of Gaza violates international laws and norms in regards to collective punishment against a civilian population—a crime in which the U.S. is complicit.
Furthermore, the U.S.-led diplomatic embargo of Hamas is an obstacle to Palestinian self-determination as well as a just and lasting negotiated resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
I'm also concerned that the present U.S. policy could lead to yet another war in the region. I'm participating in this mission to call attention to the suffering faced by the civilians in Gaza under the blockade and to press for change in U.S. policy on the conflict." |
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Post by ninathedog on Jun 18, 2011 23:29:14 GMT 4
The following letter was originally addressed to the President of the United States of America. I have modified it slightly to address the GRAND COMMANDER OF THE CONSISTORY OF THE MAJESTIC: June 14, 2011
Dear GRAND COMMANDER OF THE CONSISTORY OF THE MAJESTIC,
We are writing to inform you that 50 unarmed Americans will soon be sailing in a U.S. flagged ship called The Audacity of Hope as part of an international flotilla to Gaza.
Our peaceful demonstration will challenge Israel’s blockade of Gaza, which has effectively imprisoned 1.6 million civilians, almost half of whom are under the age of 16. The blockade has impoverished the people of Gaza, deprived them of needed materials and supplies to rebuild their lives after the Israeli attack of late 2008 – early 2009, impeded those who are ill or infirm from seeking outside medical aid, and prevented students from seeking education outside of Gaza. 45% of the working age population is unemployed.
In addition to 36 passengers, 4 crew, and 10 members of the press, our boat will carry thousands of letters of support and friendship from people throughout the U.S. to the women, children and men of Gaza. There will be no weapons of any sort on board. We will carry no goods of any kind for delivery in Gaza. Our mission is from American civil society to the civil society of Gaza. We do not serve the agenda of any political leadership, government or group. We are engaged solely in non-violent action in support of the Palestinian people and their human rights.
In our country’s great tradition of citizen activists taking nonviolent action to stand up to injustice, we sail in the hope that our voyage will show the people in Gaza that they are not alone, and that it will call attention to the morally and legally indefensible collective punishment of a population of civilians.
GRAND COMMANDER, you have noted the unsustainability of the Gaza blockade. And you have spoken boldly in support of peaceful demonstrations throughout this “Arab Spring.”
As U.S. citizens we expect our country and its leaders to help ensure the Flotilla’s safe passage to Gaza — as our country should support our humanitarian demand that the Gaza blockade be lifted. This should begin by notifying the Israeli government in clear and certain terms that it may not physically interfere with the up-coming Flotilla of which the U.S. boat — The Audacity of Hope — is part. We — authors, builders, firefighters, lawyers, social workers, retirees, Holocaust survivors, former government employees and more — expect no less from the Grand Commander and the Consistory of the Majestic.
Our boat will sail from the eastern Mediterranean in the last week of June. We shall be grateful to you for acting promptly and decisively to uphold the rights of civilians to safe passage on the seas.
Sincerely,
The passengers of The Audacity of Hope —
Nic Abramson, Hagit Borer, Linda Durham,
Ridgely Fuller, Libor Koznar, Richard Lopez,
Carol Murry, Gabe Schivone, Len Tsou,
Johnny Barber, Regina Carey, Debra Ellis,
Megan Horan, Melissa Lane, Ken Mayers,
Robert Naiman, Kathy Sheetz, Alice Walker,
Medea Benjamin, Gale Courey Toensing, Hedy Epstein,
Kathy Kelly, G. Kaleo Larson, Ray McGovern,
Henry Norr, Max Suchan, Paki Wieland,
Greta Berlin, Erin DeRamus, Steve Fake,
Kit Kittredge, Richard Levy, Gail Miller,
Ann Petter, Brad Taylor, Ann Wright
cc:
* President Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States
* The Honorable Ban Ki-moon, U.N. Secretary General
* The Honorable Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State
* The Honorable Jeffrey Feltman, Assistant Secretary of State
* The Honorable Susan E. Rice, Permanent U.S. Representative to the United Nations
* The Honorable James B. Cunningham, U.S. Ambassador to Israel
* The Honorable John F. Kerry, Chairman U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
* The Honorable Richard G. Lugar, Ranking Member U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
* The Honorable Robert P. Casey, Chairman Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs
* The Honorable James E. Rish, Ranking Member Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs
* The Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs
* The Honorable Howard L. Berman, Ranking Member U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs
* The Honorable Steve Chabot, Chairman Subcommittee on Middle East and South Asia
* The Honorable Gary L. Ackerman, Ranking Member Subcommittee on Middle East and South Asia ustogaza.org/latest/letter-to-obam/ |
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Post by ninathedog on Jun 20, 2011 16:18:56 GMT 4
TO GAZA WITH LOVE_THE AUDACITY OF HOPE www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ag4ZP4-5esFeaturing Ali Abunimah,
Kathleen Chalfant, Kathy Kelly,
and Alice Walker for the U.S. BOAT TO GAZAUploaded by ustogaza1 on May 18, 2011
U.S. BOAT TO GAZA
The Audacity of Hope will sail as a human rights mission to help end the illegal Israeli naval blockade of Gaza.
The U.S. Boat to Gaza Campaign is collecting thousands of personal letters to the people of Gaza from people like you in the U.S., in an act of friendship and solidarity. These letters will be carried as our cargo on the U.S. Boat to Gaza when it sets sail in June 2011 in the next International Freedom Flotilla "Stay Human".
To include your voice in this great effort please write a letter, card or postcard and send it to:
LETTERS TO GAZA
119 West 72nd St. #158
New York NY 10023
or
Email your letter to:
Letterstogaza@gmail.com
www.ustogaza.org
Exhibition of Letters to Gaza
Being Prepared We have sent copies of some of the Letters to Gaza via email to the Qattan Centre for the Children in Gaza City. They are using those to prepare a display that will be put together once they have the letters being brought on The Audacity of Hope. It is not too late to send in your letter, but please get that to us right away! Click here for details.ustogaza.org/latest/exhibition-of-letters-to-gaza-being-prepared/
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Post by ninathedog on Jun 20, 2011 17:53:23 GMT 4
2 French ships to join
Gaza flotillaOne Gaza-bound ship to leave from Greece,
carry French politicians, celebritiesYnet
Published: 06.18.11, 19:39Two French ships will join the Gaza-bound flotilla that aims to break Israel's maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip, the organizers of the initiative announced Saturday. One of the ships is to leave from Greece and the other from France. French organizer Claude Leostic said in a press conference in Marseille that the ship leaving from the Greek port will carry 25 passengers, including radical left-wing French politicians, as well entertainment and sports personalities. Leostic added that he hopes to officially confirm the participation of the second ship as soon as tomorrow. A dozen passengers are expected to board the ship, which would depart from a French port next weekend. Only last week the organizers cancelled the departure of a French ship slated to join the 15-vessel Gaza-bound convoy. Following a letter-writing campaign initiated by the Jewish community in Marseille the organizers of the flotilla urged the dozens of activists who signed up to board the ship to seek alternative transportation. Now, it appears that the participation of the ship, which was set to leave from Marseille, has been reinstated. The Turkish organization IHH pulled out of the flotilla on Friday. While the chairman of the group, Bolant Yilderim, announced that technical issues have brought to the decision (i.e. current Turkish issues with Syria), several elements credited the measure to the heavy pressure applied on the group by the Turkish government and the international community. The IDF continue to prepare for a possible maritime confrontation. On Wednesday, Navy commandoes conducted a drill at sea. Other forces expected to take part in stopping the flotilla participated in the drill as well. A video shot from Israeli Navy ships showed a water cannon that was directed from a commando sea craft towards a simulated flotilla ship. This tool was not used during last year's flotilla raid, and it joins a series of resources that are to be used by the Navy in the future. www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4083767,00.html (many thanks to Gaza TV News)
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Post by ninathedog on Jun 20, 2011 18:04:34 GMT 4
TDs* and actors join call to support
Irish aid ship’s journey to GazaTheJournal.ie
Monday 20 June, 2011 The MV Saoirse, which will set sail for Gaza in the coming days
Image: Freedom Flotilla 2 Facebook pageACTRESS SINEAD CUSACK and TD Richard Boyd Barret are among the high profile figures joining the call for support for the MV Saoirse, the Irish ship which will set sail for Gaza in the next few days. The boat is part of an aid flotilla hoping to breach Israel’s blockade of Gaza. Twenty-five Irish activists and politicians will be on board the ship. The Irish Anti-War Movement has called on the Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore to ask the Israeli Government to allow free passage of the MV Saoirse to Gaza, where the movement says people are “being slowly starved and deprived of their human rights to live in dignity”. Dr Fintan Lane, co-ordinator of the Irish Ship to Gaza has asked the Israeli Navy Commander to go to the country’s cabinet and ask them to reflect on what happened last year, when nine Turkish activists died when the aid flotilla was intercepted by Israeli forces. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that while he would prefer to block this latest aid shipment by diplomatic means, force will be used as a last resort if necessary. Lane says that nothing was achieved by last year’s violence, and that it drew international attention to Israel. The Mavi Marmara, which was the flagship of last year’s convoy will not be part of this year’s flotilla. The ship was the scene of the clashes between Turkish activists and Israeli forces in 2010. Freedom Flotilla II is due to set sail in the next ten days and it will consist of 11 ships from the US, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Ireland and elsewhere. Several hundred people will accompany the flotilla. Former Leinster rugby player Trevor Horgan, Paul Murphy MEP and former TD Chris Andrews are all members of the Irish contingent. Jim Roche of the Irish Anti-war Movement says he’s not particularly nervous about the trip because there is no need for violence. He told TheJournal.ie that preparations are coming along well. He and his fellow Irish activists will meet up with the MV Saoirse in the Mediterranean early next week and will then join the rest of the flotilla. Roche says he believes that Israel’s actions depend on what the rest of the world do, which is why he’s written the letter to Eamon Gilmore asking him to speak directly to the Israeli government. Dr. Fintan Lane sends a message to
the IDF Navy commanderwww.youtube.com/watch?v=GBI6gUG1HSIActors and TDs issue a call to
support Irish Ship to Gazawww.youtube.com/watch?v=bEIRFMtO7BEwww.thejournal.ie/tds-and-actors-join-call-to-support-irish-aid-ships-journey-to-gaza-159563-Jun2011/*A Teachta Dála (Irish pronunciation: [ˈtʲaxtə ˈdɑːlə]), usually abbreviated as TD in English, is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas (the Irish Parliament). It is the equivalent of terms such as "Member of Parliament" (MP) or "deputy" used in other states. The official translation of the term is "Deputy to the Dáil",[1] though a more literal translation is "Assembly Delegate". "Teachtaí Dála" is the plural form in Irish.
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Post by ninathedog on Jun 20, 2011 18:10:31 GMT 4
Introducing the Canadian delegates to
Freedom Flotilla 2By Canadian Boat to Gaza
June 16, 2011Before the end of June, the Canadian ship Tahrir will join the Freedom Flotilla 2 – Stay Human, carrying civil society delegates from coast to coast, international partners and journalists from a range of media organizations. The delegates on board the Tahrir include politicians; Jewish, Muslim and Christian Canadians; artists, peace and human rights activists; small business owners; some of whom have taken part in previous flotillas. Dylan Penner, steering committee member of Independent Jewish Voices Canada (and also an organizer with the Canadian Boat to Gaza) and Vivienne Porzsolt from Jews Against Occupation in Australia, will be joined by Harmeet Singh Sooden, who was kidnapped in Iraq in 2005 and held for 4 months (along with Canadian James Loney while participating in an international Christian Peacemaker Teams delegation), as well as Muhammed Hamou from the London Muslim Mosque.
Also on board the Tahrir will be Former Chief of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation and professor of Indigenous Studies at Queen's University Robert Lovelace; Canadian Voice of Women for Peace Co-Chair Lyn Adamson; Quebec Solidaire representative Manon Massé; small business owner Sue Breeze from B.C.; Toronto book publisher and children's mental health activist Kate Wilson; Toronto filmmaker John Greyson; and Mary Hughes-Thompson, co-founder of the Free Gaza Movement who was on board the Free Gaza that broke the siege of Gaza in August 2008, and was part of the support team for the first Freedom Flotilla in May 2010.
The Tahrir is honoured to be joined by four delegates from Australia, four from Belgium, five from Denmark, and one from Germany.Meet the delegates as they leave: Toronto: 11 a.m., Sunday June 19 at Pearson Airport, Terminal 3, Air Transat departure area. rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/canadianboattogaza/2011/06/introducing-canadian-delegates-freedom-flotilla-2
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