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23/06/2017
| | Israel`s new `security strategy` at Damascus Gate to further control Palestinian movement
Ma`an News Agency -
"Witnesses told Ma`an that Israeli police were conducting physical
searches on Palestinians, including women and children, and forcing
holders of West Bank IDs to board special buses, which had been
deployed across Jerusalem since the early hours of Saturday morning
following the attack.The “deportations” followed a decision from
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to revoke family
visitation permits issued to Palestinians to enter Jerusalem and
Israel for Ramadan, as a punitive reaction to the attack. According
to Israeli news site Haaretz, 250,000 Palestinians had their permits
revoked." ca | | | Palestinian press groups blast ban on websites linked to Abbas rivals
Daoud Kuttab -
Al Monitor
"The Palestinian government`s blocking of websites and arrest of
journalists is yet another indication of the Ramallah-based
leadership`s loss of control. Such acts reflect a leadership that is
paying a high price for the internal struggles within the leading
Fatah movement and between the Palestine Liberation Organization and
Hamas. This toll affects the Abbas administration’s credibility and
deteriorates its public support." ca
| | | Jews Gather at Sumud Freedom Camp to Support Palestinian Outpost in the West Bank
Elhanan Miller -
Tablet Magazine
"Six months ago, a coalition of Palestinian organizations and left-
wing Jewish American groups decided to take up Aamar’s cause. On May
19, 300 activists arrived on the site and set up the “Sumud” Freedom
Camp, Arabic for “steadfastness.” The group, which included 130
volunteers with the Center for Jewish Nonviolence, erected tents and
began clearing rubble from the abandoned caves, preparing them for
repopulation." ca | | | What we didn’t know about the 1967 war
James Zogby -
Al Ahram Weekly
"In September of 1995, The New York Times ran a story under the
headline “Egypt Says Israelis Killed POW’s in the ‘67 War”. The
story reported on the discovery of mass graves in the Sinai desert
containing the bodies of Egyptian soldiers, together with eyewitness
accounts of the killings... The story of the Western Wall was no
less troubling. Here, too, what happened to the Palestinian
inhabitants of the Moughrabi neighbourhood that was adjacent to the
wall has long been known and long been ignored." ca
| | | Life in a septic tank
Sarah Algherbawi -
Electronic Intifada
"Every day, 100,000 cubic meters of raw sewage are discharged into
the sea around Gaza.
The Gaza Strip’s environmental problems have worsened in recent
years.
Gaza has suffered from chronic electricity shortages ever since its
sole power plant was bombed by Israel in 2006. Israel imposed an
ongoing, severe economic blockade on the territory one year later,
restricting the import of fuel and hindering repair of electricity
infrastructure destroyed and damaged during successive military
offensives." ca
| | | Israel`s `Ethics Code` to Formally Suppress Academic Freedom, Palestinians Urge Intensifying BDS
Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
(PACBI) - Israel’s far-right, pro-settler Education Minister Naftali
Bennett is promoting a new “ethics code” that would prohibit Israeli
university professors from expressing “political opinions.”
The new code would also forbid professors to call for or participate
in an academic boycott of Israel, or even of its settlement colleges,
and university departments to collaborate with “political
organizations.” Academic institutions would be required to institute
committees tasked with monitoring political activity of professors,
act on complaints from students and take disciplinary action against
transgressors.-rh
| | | Bennett’s ‘peace’ plan: I’ll dictate, you’ll sign
Aviad Kleinberg - YNet - In Bennett’s world, however, the other side—
as well as its needs, its desires, its abilities and its rights—
doesn’t exist. We will determine the outlines of the coexistence
according to our demographic, security and cultural needs (we will
determine, for example, that “Jerusalem is above reasoning and above
peace”). We will determine the borders of the Palestinians` autonomy
and, of course, the borders of the state and, as a result, the borders
of the Palestinian “entity.” If we are strong enough, the other side
will be forced to accept this dictation. Peace, in other words, is not
a move in which we recognize the other and try to get the other to
agree, but a one-sided move which exclusively reflects our needs.-rh | | | Israel cancels 250,000 Palestinian permits to enter Israel during Ramadan after deadly attack
Sheren Khalel - Mondoweiss - Israeli authorities on Friday rescinded
250,000 Israel entry permits from Palestinians hours after a deadly
attack in Jerusalem left four dead and several injured, a spokesperson
for the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories
(COGAT) told Mondoweiss.-rh
| | | Are Attacks On Israeli Police In East Jerusalem Terrorism?
Rima Najjar - Countercurrents - The nature of Israel’s violence in
Jerusalem (as well as in the other occupied Palestinian territories of
the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) is highlighted by the extrajudicial
and brutal erasure of Palestinians who exercise their internationally
recognized right to resist as described by the United Nations General
Assembly Resolution A/RES/33/24 of 29 November 1978: Reaffirms the
legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial
integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial and foreign
domination and foreign occupation by all available means, particularly
armed struggle;-rh
| | | Canada Park, a popular picnicking spot for Israelis, created upon the rubble of Palestinian homes
Mersiha Gadzo - In 1972, the Canadian branch, JNF Canada, raised $15m
($90m in today’s dollars) to create Canada Park, built on top of the
demolished villages in occupied Palestine. Since then, the land has
been treated as though it is in Israel proper rather than the occupied
West Bank. The Separation Barrier prevents Palestinians living in the
occupied West Bank from accessing Canada Park, including families that
used to live on the land. A 1986 UN Special Committee reported to the
UN Secretary-General that it “considers it a matter of deep concern”
that the villagers are denied the right to return due to the
construction of Canada Park by JNF Canada.-rh
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