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| Zionism’s endgame has begun | | Philip Weiss - Mondoweiss - Last week the Guardian newspaper in London
expressed shame over one of its worst errors of judgment: that in 1917
it supported and facilitated the Balfour Declaration, the imperial
document that awarded Jews the “right” to make a homeland in
Palestine. This counter-declaration was met with rage by Israel
supporters. And well it should, for it represents another blow to the
legitimacy of Zionism in the west. All around us today we hear these
blows falling on the central creed of Israel: the supposed right of a
Jewish collective to national self-determination in a land populated
by others. I’ll remind you of some of those blows: Human Rights Watch
has issued a report saying that Israel is guilty of the crime of
“apartheid and persecution” against its Palestinian subjects, and
millions of Palestinians have the right to return to the homes from
which they were expelled in 1948. The leading human rights group in
Israel, B’Tselem, said that Israel is an “apartheid regime” of “Jewish
supremacy” from the river to the sea. The Carnegie Endowment has
called for America to use pressure for equal rights for all in the
land, and an author of that report, Zaha Hassan, echoes the
“apartheid” finding. A leading Jewish writer (with AIPAC on his
resume), Peter Beinart has thoroughly apostacized in the last year,
calling for an end to the two state model and equal rights for all
between the river and sea, and in today’s Times Beinart says that
Palestinian refugees “deserve to return home.”(rh) | 30/5/2021 |
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| European Muslim Forum: Netanyahu should be held accountable for inhuman treatment of Palestinian people | | Wafa.ps - May 24, 2021 (WAFA) – The European Muslim Forum (EMF) said
in a statement that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should
be held personally accountable for the inhuman treatment of the people
of Palestine, the encroachment on its sovereignty, and the desecration
of the holy sites of Islam. “This man as the political leader of
Israel, more than anyone else is involved in organizing punitive
operations against the civilian population of Gaza, the military
destruction of its infrastructure, police violence against the Arab
community, military operations that damage world cultural heritage
sites, including Al-Aqsa,” said EMF. “EMF is convinced that
Netanyahu`s inhuman orders and hate statements must receive the most
serious and rigorous assessment from the standpoint of international
humanitarian law. We should not allow a criminal clothed with power to
escape punishment by shifting all responsibility to the command of the
armed forces and police subordinate to him.”(rh) | 30/5/2021 |
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| The Israel-Palestine Narrative Has Evolved | | PHYLLIS BENNIS - Portside - On Saturday, May 15, Israel bombarded a
15-story building in Gaza City, the main media building housing local
and international journalists alike, including Al-Jazeera and the
Associated Press. While this was not the first time Israel had
deliberately attacked journalists, Saturday’s attack neatly symbolized
Israel’s desperate efforts to silence the mushrooming discussion of
all that is wretched about the Israeli government’s policies both
inside Green Line Israel and in the occupied Palestinian Territories.
The strictly controlled public narrative, handled in the United States
not only by Israeli government spokespersons but the lobbying group
AIPAC, the American Jewish Committee, and the Anti-Defamation League
cheerleaders in America, has snowballed out of their control.The
images of charred bodies of children in Gaza—59 of the at least 212
Palestinians killed by Israeli bombs as of Monday—flattened and
smoldering apartment buildings, traumatized families fleeing their
homes with salvaged valuables tucked in their hands: These are not
new.//What is new and qualitatively different is the vigorous and
unapologetic analytic criticism of Israel—and U.S. policy that has
provided it with billions in annual, unconditional military support
for the past several decades—that has seeped into mainstream
discourse. From national broadcasters to Washington think tanks, from
the floor of the U.S. Congress to street protests in Boston, Chicago,
New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and even Miami, Puerto Rico,
Cleveland, and Oklahoma, the conversation has shifted far, far away
from the regurgitated, stale defenses of “Israel’s right to exist,”
“terrorists,” and “anti-Semitism” to a new recognition of Palestinian
rights. Protesters are bringing words to the fore like ‘apartheid,’
‘land theft,’ and ‘ethnic cleansing.’(rh)
| 30/5/2021 |
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| Bernie Sanders: Netanyahu Empowered `Overt Racists,` Helped Foment Crisis | | Ben Samuels - Haaretz - U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Sunday doubled
down on his criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying
that he has empowered "overt racists" in his government and helped
foment the recent round of Israeli-Palestinian violence. On CBS`s Face
the Nation program, John Dickerson told the Vermont senator that he
had read parts of Sanders` New York Times op-ed to Netanyahu, who
thought it was "preposterous." Sanders claimed in the op-ed that the
Israeli prime minister has "worked to foreclose the possibility of a
two-state solution." Dickerson then asked Sanders how one can take an
"even-handed approach to terrorists who want to destroy Israel?"
Sanders responded by highlighting Israeli politics` rightward shift.
"What you`ve got to do is also understand is that, over the years, the
Netanyahu government has become extremely right wing, and that there
are people in the Israeli government now who are overt racists. You
have in Jerusalem people being evicted from their homes. Tremendous
pressure on people within Israel, the Arab community, as well as
Gaza." (rh) | 30/5/2021 |
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| Blinken in Jerusalem: US will aid Gaza without helping Hamas | | TOI STAFF and AGENCIES - On his first visit to Israel as secretary of
state, top United States diplomat Antony Blinken affirmed on Tuesday
President Joe Biden’s “personal” commitment to Israel’s security and
said the US would take a lead role in the “urgent humanitarian
reconstruction in Gaza” to ensure a better future for all sides.
“Leaders on both sides” need to take steps “to set a better course for
their shared future,” he said, speaking to the press alongside Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister’s Office in
Jerusalem. Blinken’s meeting with Netanyahu launched a regional tour
that saw him head to Ramallah Tuesday afternoon for meetings with
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and then to Jordan and
Egypt in a bid to shore up last week’s Israel-Gaza ceasefire and
launch the reconstruction effort.(rh) | 30/5/2021 |
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| The fall and rise (and fall?) of apartheid | | JINAN BASTAKI - Mondoweiss - Apartheid in South Africa ended in part due
to sanctions and pressure from the international community. It is once
again on the international community to ensure that international law is
upheld and apartheid sees its demise, this time in Palestine. (rh) | 30/5/2021 |
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| Update- Some 20 Palestinians injured as Israeli forces quell anti-settlement rally south of Nablus | | NABLUS, Friday, May 28, 2021 (WAFA) – Some 20 Palestinians today were
injured as Israeli forces quelled an anti-settlement-construction
rally in Beita town, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, according
to WAFA correspondent. He said that Israeli forces opened intensive
fire towards the participants in the rally called for in protest of
the construction of a new colonial settlement atop Jabal Sbeih (Sbeih
Mountain) near the town, hitting two with live rounds, three others
with rubber-coated steel bullets and causing 15 others to suffer from
the effects of tear gas inhalation. The soldiers chased two other
protestors, causing them to fall and sustain wounds.(rh) | 30/5/2021 |
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| Israel’s White Paper? US Jews find locked doors The Law of Return isn`t working. American Jews aren`t being allowed to move to Israel : What is going on?! | | Steve Rodan - Times of Israel - Chavi Rosenberg decided to make the
move: COVID-19 had kept her home; the violence on the streets of New
York came awfully close to her street. There was no future in America,
and she decided that Israel would be her home. The problem was that
Israel decided the exact opposite. Rosenberg, not her real name, has
been waiting for nearly a year for a decision to be allowed to make
aliyah. Working with Nefesh B’Nefesh, the contractor for the
IsraeliThen, the Israeli consulate took over. The bureaucrats demanded
documents from as long as 60 years ago. She had to bring marriage
certificates, birth certificates, and other official documents that
had nothing to do with Israel. Then, she was told to contact the FBI
and submit her fingerprints. The Americans would have the last word
over whether she could leave the country.(rh) | 30/5/2021 |
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| ‘Terrorising a generation’: Israel arresting Palestinian children | | Farah Najjar - Aljazeera - Thirteen-year-old Mohammed Saadi was
kidnapped, blindfolded, beaten and threatened with a gun to his head
by five men in his hometown of Umm al-Fahem. It was May 20 and Saadi
was among thousands who gathered for a funeral procession held for
Mohammed Kiwan, a 17-year-old boy who was shot by Israeli police a
week earlier.(rh)
| 30/5/2021 |
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| UN rights chief: Israeli strikes in Gaza may be war crimes | | Associated Press - ynetnews - The U.N. rights chief said on Thursday
that Israeli forces may have committed war crimes in the latest, 11-
day war with the militant group Hamas that rules the Gaza Strip. The
remarks by Michelle Bachelet came as the U.N.’s top human rights body
opened a one-day special session to discuss the plight faced by
Palestinians in the fighting this month. She said that Hamas’
indiscriminate rocketing during the conflict was also a clear
violation of the rules of war.//“Air strikes in such densely populated
areas resulted in a high level of civilian fatalities and injuries, as
well as the widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure,” she
said. “Such strikes raise serious concerns of Israel’s compliance with
distinction and proportionality under international humanitarian
law.”(rh)
| 30/5/2021 |
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| It is not enough to count the dead and hope | | Zvi Schuldiner - Il Manifesto, Global Edition - In the last hours, it
has become tragically clear that at the moment, the Israeli government
and Hamas are not interested in the mediation of international actors
to reach a ceasefire. After years of silence about a conflict that
seemed forgotten, everyone has woken up and are sounding the warning
(as if they’d just realized it!) that the occupation is not an
acceptable everyday reality and it hides an explosive core. Issues
long concealed or forgotten factors have blown up once again, and
again the price to be paid will be bloodshed from both peoples.The
post-Trump United States—led by Joe Biden—the European Union, Israel
and the Arab countries all say they are “surprised.” Among the
Israelis, the question is being asked: “How could they tell us that
Hamas was not interested in armed confrontation?” The truth is that
both Netanyahu and Hamas’s leaders—who were waiting for more dollars
to arrive from Qatar—were pursuing a line that led nowhere but ensured
a relatively advantageous status quo. There had been several outbreaks
of violence, lasting a day or so, with subsequent ceasefires brokered
by Egypt, Qatar and the U.N.(rh) | 23/5/2021 |
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| Why is accountability for alleged war crimes so hard to achieve in the Israel-Palestinian conflict? | | Amy Maguire - The Conversation - The latest outbreak of conflict in
Gaza and Israel is escalating rapidly. At the time of writing, at
least 192 Palestinians are reported dead, including 58 children. Ten
Israelis are reported dead, including two children. Hamas is firing
rockets into Israel from Gaza. Some cause casualties, while many are
intercepted by Israeli anti-missile systems or fall short of the
border. Israel is conducting aerial and artillery bombardment of
Palestinian targets. In recent days, it has destroyed a building that
housed the Associated Press and Al Jazeera offices in Gaza, and
levelled multiple Palestinian homes.The conflict is the most intense
outbreak of violence since the 2014 Israel-Gaza war. Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will do “whatever it takes to restore
order and quiet” and this could take some time.The question of
Palestinian statehood and the enduring Israeli-Palestinian conflict is
the perennial dilemma of the international legal system. The failure
of the international community to bring about a resolution in the
decades-long conflict reflects the highly politicised nature of
international law.(rh) | 23/5/2021 |
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| Arabs hold general strike across Israel as Palestinians declare ‘day of rage’ | | AARON BOXERMAN - Times of Israel - Palestinians and Arab Israelis were
participating in a general strike across Israel, the West Bank and
Gaza on Tuesday in protest of Israeli policies toward Palestinians.
The participants were set to protest Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, as
well as recent Israeli actions in Jerusalem, in marches on Tuesday
afternoon and evening.“This is the first time we’re seeing almost
everyone participate in the strike. We’ve tried it before, but we’ve
never seen this result,” said Castro Othman, a resident of Tamra in
northern Israel.(rh)
| 23/5/2021 |
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| ‘We are united as a people’: Palestinians celebrate a historic strike, urge supporters to ‘keep momentum going’ | | YUMNA PATEL - Yumna Patel reports from Bethlehem where protesters joined
millions of Palestinians across the West Bank, Gaza, Jerusalem, Israel,
and surrounding regions in the historic "Strike for Dignity", which
called for an end to Israel’s “campaign of violence and ethnic cleansing
against our people.” (rh) | 23/5/2021 |
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| Dozens suffocate as Israeli forces quell peaceful rallies in Hebron, Bethlehem | | Wafa News Agency - HEBRON, Friday, May 21, 2021 (WAFA) – Dozens of
Palestinians suffocated as Israeli forces Friday afternoon quelled
peaceful rallies in the southern West Bank cities of Hebron and
Bethlehem, according to WAFA correspondent. He said that Israeli
troops violently dispersed a rally that saw the participation of
thousands of Palestinians who took to the street waiving the flags of
Palestine and erupting into cheers voicing solidarity with the
steadfastness of Palestinians in the face of the Israeli aggression on
Gaza and forced expulsions in Jerusalem. The soldiers opened fire
towards the protestors as the latter approached the northern entrance
of the city, causing dozens to suffocate from tear gas inhalation.(rh) | 23/5/2021 |
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| Gaza’s Destruction: An Unbearable Humanitarian and Financial Toll | | Amira Hass - Haaretz - Hamas figures estimate that damage to the Gaza
Strip has already cost more than a quarter of a billion dollars, while
damage to power and water infrastructure has obstructed access to water
for around 800,000 people.(rh) | 23/5/2021 |
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| Coexistence in Israel’s ‘mixed cities’ was always an illusion | | JONATHAN COOK - Mondoweiss - Last weekend Israeli prime minister
Benjamin Netanyahu described as “terrorists” those Palestinian
citizens who have been protesting decades of state-sponsored
discrimination. Vowing that “anyone who acts like a terrorist will be
handled like one”, he said: “Arab law-breakers are attacking Jews,
burning synagogues and Jewish homes.” Netanyahu has been far from
alone in his denunciations of nearly two weeks of protests inside
Israel by the fifth of Israel’s population who are Palestinian by
origin. They are the remnants of the Palestinian people, most of whom
were ethnically cleansed at Israel’s founding in 1948. Israel’s
president, Reuven Rivlin, who is usually seen as far more moderate
than Netanyahu, has called Palestinian protesters inside Israel a
“bloodthirsty Arab mob” and described their actions as a “pogrom”
against the Jewish community.Both have remained largely silent about
the wave of even greater violence against Israel’s Palestinian
minority, both from the police and armed Jewish far-right gangs.(rh) | 23/5/2021 |
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| Dispel the darkness: Thousands of Jews, Arabs rally for coexistence in Tel Aviv : Demonstration, which also calls for two-state solution, comes after violent riots in mixed cities and Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza | | SIMONA WEINGLASS - Times of Israel - Thousands of people demonstrated
in central Tel Aviv on Saturday night, calling for Jewish and Arab
coexistence and a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict.The rally followed the 11-day conflict between Israel and
terror groups in the Gaza Strip, which sparked violent riots in
Jewish-Arab cities within Israel, including communities long seen as
models of coexistence. At least two Israelis were killed in the riots
and several others were seriously injured by the mob violence.
Chanting “This is all of our homes,” “We stand together without hatred
and without fear,” and “The answer to the Right is Israel and
Palestine,” the demonstrators marched from Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square to
the Habima Theater Square. There, the crowd heard speeches from two of
the organizers of the demonstration, Itamar Avnery and Sally Abed, as
well as author David Grossman and Joint List leader Ayman Odeh.(rh)
| 23/5/2021 |
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| Israel’s air strikes targeted entire families in Gaza — but U.S. media won’t pursue the story | | James North - Mondoweiss - Amira Hass is one of the most impressive
and experienced journalists in Israel/Palestine. She writes for the
respected daily Haaretz, where on May 19 she made an extraordinary
charge — that the Israeli military, as part of its air assault on
Gaza, “is wiping out entire Palestinian families on purpose.”
So far, no mainstream U.S. media outlet has followed up on her report.
Their failure is journalistic malpractice. Hass, the daughter of
Holocaust survivors, actually lived in Gaza from 1993-97, and
afterward published the valuable Drinking the Sea in Gaza (1999). She
obviously still has excellent contacts there. This latest report
starts by observing that 15 Palestinian families in Gaza lost multiple
family members during the Israeli bombardment: Parents and children,
babies, grandparents, siblings and nephews and nieces died together
when Israel bombed their homes which collapsed over them. Insofar as
is known, no advance warning was given so they could evacuate the
targeted houses.(rh) | 23/5/2021 |
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| Antisemitism in New York City: What we know about Thursday’s attacks : The city has experienced a string of assaults connected to the fighting in Gaza | | BEN SALES - Times of Israel - On Thursday, as Israel and Hamas
reached a ceasefire that ended their 11-day conflict, Jews in New York
City experienced a string of assaults and attacks connected to the
fighting half a world away. On Thursday night, dueling pro-Israeli and
pro-Palestinian demonstrations clashed in Times Square, where
protesters from both demonstrations broke out into brawls.The violence
also spilled over into the surrounding blocks, where Jews were
assaulted in the street. Videos circulating on social media appear to
show pro-Palestinian protesters, wearing Palestinian colors or dressed
in Palestinian scarves, attacking Jews and bystanders in a heavily
Jewish area.(rh)
| 23/5/2021 |
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| Hasbara fights back: Killing innocent children is ‘unavoidable burden’ of Jewish self-determination | | JAMES NORTH AND PHILIP WEISS - Mondoweisss- The shift we are seeing in
the US discourse over the violent Israeli response to a Palestinian
uprising is evident in our press. It is open to the Palestinian
narrative in a way that it has not been for some time — like the
brilliant piece by Refaat Alareer from Gaza that the New York Times
ran on its op-ed page which poignantly captured the experience of
trying to protect a family from a high-tech war machine aiming its
weapons at a civilian population.There are no high-tech warning
systems here to alert us to incoming missiles or tell us to take
shelter. We have to learn to read the patterns of Israel’s wanton
strikes. Being a good parent in Gaza means developing a knack for what
Israel’s drones and F-16s will do next. On Wednesday night, after two
hours of nonstop bombardment and Israeli missiles raining down all
over the Strip — some landing just a few hundred meters away from our
building . . . comes the intolerable indecision: I am caught between
wanting to take the family outside, despite the missiles, shrapnel and
falling debris, and staying at home, like sitting ducks for the
American-made, Israeli-piloted planes. We stayed at home. At least we
would die together, I thought.(rh) | 16/5/2021 |
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| Has war on Hamas given Netanyahu a political lifeline? | | Al-Monitor Staff - Israel’s war on Hamas has given new life to
Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to hold onto power as prime minister.It
wasn’t looking good for Netanyahu before the conflict escalated, with
two minority parties having agreed to form a coalition to oust Bibi.
But on May 13, Yamina party Chair Naftali Bennett, who had a nearly
done deal with Yesh Atid party Chair Yair Lapid, told Lapid the deal
was off. The collapse of the prospect for a so-called "government of
change," based on nothing more than a shared desire to defeat Bibi,
"is the direct outcome of violent clashes in mixed Jewish-Arab towns
this week," writes Mazal Mualem. Lapid still has until June 2 to form
a government before the process is turned over to the Knesset
(parliament). If the parliament can’t decide, there will be a fifth
election, which would take months — and Bibi would remain prime
minister in the interim. (rh)
| 16/5/2021 |
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| Mother and 3 children among dead in IDF strike on Gaza | | Ynet,Agencies - Ynetnews - An Israeli air raid onGaza killed at least
10 Palestinians, mostly children, early Saturday in the deadliest
single strike since the battle with Gaza`s militant Hamas rulers
erupted earlier this week. Both sides pressed for an advantage as
cease-fire efforts gathered strength. Hamas militants responded by
firing rockets into Israel as their battle entered its sixth day and
U.S. and Arab diplomats sought an end to the violence. Mohammed Abu
Hatab told reporters his wife and five children had gone to celebrate
the Eid al-Fitr holiday with relatives. She and three of the children,
aged 6 to 14, were killed, while an 11-year-old is missing. Only his
5-month-old son Omar is known to have survived.(rh)
| 16/5/2021 |
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| The Nakba Continues | | ALICE ROTHCHILD - Counterpunch - As my grief and outrage mount at the
predictable escalations of violence in Israel/Palestine, I once again
marvel at the chasms of misunderstanding and miscalculations in
describing events as they unfold and the script that frames most
mainstream media reporting. (Recently, The New York Times is a notable
exception.) The both-sides-have-their reasons-but-Israel-is-the-victim
stories follow an expected pattern. Israeli Jews, still living in the
shadow of the Holocaust, return to their rightful homes and then fight
for every inch of what is justly theirs. They are repeatedly faced
with intractable Arab terrorists who attack innocent civilians and
must be crushed with all the might the Israeli military has at its
disposal. Never Again! Add “barely human” Hamas and Iranian militants,
and armed and aggressive ultra-Orthodox Jews and settlers abetted by
Israeli soldiers defending God’s promises and marching defiantly
through Jerusalem yelling “Death to the Arabs!” and we have the
narrative in place. The United Nations, a host of human rights groups,
and the International Court protest, suggesting various crimes against
humanity, while Israelis wring their hands and cry foul. Victim again.
The US remains remarkably silent given that much of the weaponry is
ours. Could both sides just de-escalate, please? (rh) | 16/5/2021 |
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| Bernie Sanders: The U.S. Must Stop Being an Apologist for the Netanyahu Government | | Bernie Sanders - “Israel has the right to defend itself.”These are the
words we hear from both Democratic and Republican administrations
whenever the government of Israel, with its enormous military power,
responds to rocket attacks from Gaza. Let’s be clear. No one is
arguing that Israel, or any government, does not have the right to
self-defense or to protect its people. So why are these words repeated
year after year, war after war? And why is the question almost never
asked: “What are the rights of the Palestinian people?” And why do we
seem to take notice of the violence in Israel and Palestine only when
rockets are falling on Israel? In this moment of crisis, the United
States should be urging an immediate cease-fire. We should also
understand that, while Hamas firing rockets into Israeli communities
is absolutely unacceptable, today’s conflict did not begin with those
rockets.(rh) | 16/5/2021 |
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| Amid growing US pressure, Israel said considering Gaza ceasefire | | JUDAH ARI GROSS and TOI STAFF - The Times of Israel - As US President
Joe Biden and other major American lawmakers raised concerns over the
weekend regarding recent Israeli strikes that killed a number of
Palestinian civilians and destroyed a Gaza building used by
international media outlets, which Israel maintained also housed
terror groups, Israeli officials indicated Sunday that a ceasefire
could be coming. While maintaining Israel’s right to defend itself
from Hamas’s rocket attacks, US officials have begun calling for
Jerusalem to begin winding down the conflict.(rh) | 16/5/2021 |
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| ‘No ceasefire yet’: Israel said to want IDF to complete ‘missions’ against Hamas | | JACOB MAGID and TOI STAFF - The Times of Israel - Israel has made it
clear that it is not currently seeking a ceasefire with Gaza’s terror
groups despite a number of proposals raised to halt the fighting,
according to a Saturday report. Channel 12 news said that several
initiatives have been proposed to end the violence, but Israel’s
political leadership favors several more days of fighting to enable
the IDF to complete the missions it wants to carry out against Hamas
in Gaza. There were no further details given on those objectives.(rh) | 16/5/2021 |
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| Hundreds of bombs dropped on Hamas tunnels IDF hits Sinwar home | | Elior Levy,Yoav Zitun - Ynetnews - After midnight Hamas made good on
its promise and shortly after midnight launched a massive barrage of
rockets targeting the center of the country with rockets launched at
the greater Tel Aviv area, the airport and even the West Bank and in
the late hours, rockets were directed at the southern city of Be`er
Sheva.Israel launched at least 150 strikes on Gaza overnight targeting
underground tunnels and the home of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Khan
Yunis, his brother and those of other senior members of the
organization.(rh) | 16/5/2021 |
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| The land incursion that never came | | Ron Ben Yishai - Ynetnews - As part of the IDF`s new and deadly multi-
faceted combat doctrine, the Israeli military cunningly convinced Gaza
terrorists and the world it had launched a ground attack on the
Palestinian enclave, making its adversaries expose their positions and
dealing them a severe blow.(rh) | 16/5/2021 |
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| What has the PA Done to Halt Israeli Apartheid? | | Ramona Wadi - Palestine Chronicle - The Palestinian Authority couldn’t
have hoped for better timing for the release of the Human Rights Watch
report detailing Israel’s apartheid system and violations. It’s just a
pity for the PA that Palestinians are not fooled by a leadership that
calls for the international community to act upon the report, while it
once again cancels elections in a repetitive cycle that was obviously
going to happen from the minute the dates were announced. A very brief
report by Wafa news agency gave details about PA Prime Minister
Mohammad Shtayyeh calling upon the UN and its affiliated institutions
for more recognition of Israel’s crimes and “the need to form an
international front to end the Israeli occupation in the Palestinian
territories.” A hypothetical front, of course, in which the
Palestinian leadership would not take part. The safety it enjoys
through collaborating with Israel and the international community in
maintaining Israel’s expansion is thus rewarded handsomely, just as
security coordination, which entrenches Israel’s apartheid system, has
proved to be profitable for the PA.(rh) | 9/5/2021 |
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| Why American politicians cannot say the words ‘Israeli apartheid’ American political language does not have the capacity to address Palestine : because it is disabled by white supremacy. | | Mariam Barghouti - Aljazeera - Over the past few weeks, as the Israeli
colonial forces escalated their brutal violence against the
Palestinians of occupied Jerusalem, many hoped for some kind of a
sharp reaction from the new Biden administration. But that did not
come. Instead, we once again heard about how “deeply concerned” the US
State Department is about “unilateral steps that exacerbate tensions”
and that both Israeli and Palestinian officials need “to act
decisively to de-escalate tensions”.(rh) | 9/5/2021 |
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| Rampaging Israeli Settlers - Call for "Death to Arabs" in Jerusalem | | Philip Giraldi - Information Clearing House - Last week there were
some interesting stories that were very definitely underreported
partly due to the fact that the mainstream media was heavily into the
distraction provided by its beatification of George Floyd. For
example, the tale of how a mob consisting of hundreds of Israeli Jews,
composed mostly of settlers and the extremist so-called Kahanists,
rampaging through Jerusalem and calling for “Death to Arabs,” was
largely ignored. Right-wing Israeli lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir sent a
message to the settlers, encouraging participants to “hang Arabs.” One
member responded to the advice to bring their firearms with them with
“We’re burning Arabs today, the Molotov cocktails are already in the
trunk.”(rh) | 9/5/2021 |
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| Celebrities express solidarity with Palestine, Sheikh Jarrah | | Wafa.ps - RAMALLAH, Sunday, May 9, 2021 (WAFA) – A number of Arab and
international celebrities have expressed solidarity and support for
the people of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem who are
facing a potential threat of eviction by the Israeli occupation
authorities. English rock musician Roger Waters, best known as bass
player, co-lead vocalist, lyricist and principal songwriter in the
rock band Pink Floyd, described Israel as "an apartheid state" in a
video he posted on his Twitter account.
Waters also addressed US President Joe Biden, saying: "Biden is still
going ‘Oh, I support Israel in anything’ Oh, wait you support them in
this genocidal removal of people from their homes.” "How would you
like it, Joe Biden? You`re sitting at home, there that`s your home,
it`s where your family have lived for hundreds of years. And some ….
comes along and goes, that’s ours. I`m a settler I`m going to take
your house from you. I don`t care what you do. Die ... that would be
the very best,” Waters said.(rh) | 9/5/2021 |
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| Tensions in Jerusalem Rise with Forced Evictions | | Palestine Chronicle - The Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has
declared that under the directions of President of the republic Kais
Saied, Tunisia, as an Arab member of the UN Security Council, asked in
coordination with the Palestinian side and backed by China, the
current President of the Council, Norway, Ireland, Vietnam, Saint
Vincent, The Grenadines and Niger, the holding of a UN Security
Council session on May 10, 2021 (rh) | 9/5/2021 |
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| Another Nakba: `This Is My House, This Is My Door, You Are a Thief` | | Abby Zimet - Portside - While the world turns away, "there is fuel in
the air" as a record number of Palestinians in and around occupied
East Jerusalem lose their homes, either pitilessly razed by middle-of-
the-night bulldozers or brazenly seized by jeering Israeli settlers
with the so-called laws of occupation on their side. In 2020, 140
Palestinian families lost their homes, about double the number in
2019, a surge in Israel`s ethnic cleansing many see as part of a "100
year Zionist project" to appropriate "Jerusalem whole and united." The
escalation comes amidst a recent wave of violence against Palestinians
who`ve been protesting the closure of the iconic Damascus Gate during
Ramadan; hundreds have been injured by mobs of Jewish settlers
shouting "Death to Arabs" and "Burn them!" in the name of "restoring
Jewish dignity." (rh)
| 8/5/2021 |
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| Netanyahu office warned Ben Gvir of Gaza rockets if he didn’t leave E. J’lem | | TOI STAFF - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office urged a far-
right Knesset member to pack up his “parliamentary office” in an East
Jerusalem neighborhood that has been a recent flashpoint, as clashes
escalated there Thursday, Israeli television reported. According to a
Channel 12 news report Friday, someone at the Prime Minister’s Office
told MK Itamar Ben Gvir there was intelligence that if he did not
leave Sheikh Jarrah, Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip could
immediately fire rockets at Jerusalem.(rh) | 8/5/2021 |
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| Remote, fearful and suspicious: Why Israel’s Negev Bedouin remain unvaccinated | | The Times of Israel - Nearly 5 months into Israel’s immunization
drive, only 38% of eligible Bedouins have gotten a dose despite
warnings of another wave among the community; Bedouin MK: ‘I’m scared`
Bir Hadaj has the dismal honor of being the country’s least-vaccinated
municipality. Just 2 percent of the town’s 2,000-odd residents are
vaccinated; in the median Israeli city, some 56% of total residents
are immunized.
BIR HADAJ, southern Israel — Five months of government campaigning to
vaccinate Israeli citizens against the coronavirus have left little
trace in the southern Bedouin town of Bir Hadaj.
| 8/5/2021 |
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| EU calls for de-escalating situation in East Jerusalem, respect of status quo | | Wafa News Agency - At least 25 Palestinians were detained by Israeli
occupation forces in the occupied capital Jerusalem in an ongoing
detention campaign which started last night, according to the
Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).The latest arrests follow a
violent night which saw hundreds of Israeli police officers raid the
courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem and assault
innocent worshipers, sparking clashes that ended up with scores of
injuries among the Palestinian worshipers.Tens of thousands of
worshipers had earlier packed Islam’s third-holiest site on the final
Friday of Ramadan and many stayed on to protest against Israeli plans
to evict Palestinian families from their homes on land claimed by
Jewish settlers in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. Palestinians have
staged a series of sit-ins in the area in recent days denouncing
Israeli orders for them to vacate their homes. Israeli occupation
forces have attacked the sit-ins using skunk water, tear gas, rubber-
coated bullets and shock grenades. Dozens of Palestinians have been
arrested. (rh)
| 8/5/2021 |
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| Yes, Israel Is Obviously an Apartheid State | | Eric Alterman - The Nation -The recent Human Rights Watch report “A
Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and
Persecution” is a valuable piece of scholarship: 213 pages of
carefully worded, heavily footnoted evidence martialed in sober, and
deliberately uninflammatory, prose. Unfortunately, it won’t make a
damn bit of difference.(rh)The “apartheid” debate in—and about—Israel
has been simmering for decades. Though anti-Zionists have long
insisted on the term’s accuracy, it has slowly gained credence inside
Israel as well and has been deployed by an Israeli attorney general, a
deputy mayor of Jerusalem, and two former Israeli prime ministers,
among others—but almost always as a warning about the consequences of
the occupation rather than as a description of current reality. The
last time the term caused a stir in the United States was in 2006,
when former president Jimmy Carter published a book titled Palestine
Peace, Not Apartheid. Following angry attacks by Israel’s partisans in
the media, Carter retracted his usage of the term and issued an “Al
Het,” which is a prayer Jews usually say on Yom Kippur, to atone for
their sins and ask God for forgiveness. He added, “We must not permit
criticisms for improvement to stigmatize Israel.” | 6/5/2021 |
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| Netanyahu`s trial may not be decided in court | | Tova Tsimuky - Ynetnews - As the prime minister`s corruption trial is
getting underway in Jerusalem, the defendant is busy trying to find a way
to persuade the president that he must form the next government — one
that will inoculate him against any unfavorable outcome.(rh) | 6/5/2021 |
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| The success of vaccine science is thanks to public funds, not private | | Luca Tancredi Barone - global il Manifesto - The success of the
vaccines against Covid-19 has happened thanks to “capitalism” and
“greed.” These words—which the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson
said in a recent meeting with Conservative MPs—effectively summarize
the mantra defended by the global right and by the pharmaceutical
companies: development can only happen thanks to private individuals
who look out for their own interests.Too bad it’s almost never true.
This is demonstrated by a preprint//whose ten authors have analyzed
the sources of funding for the research behind the AstraZeneca
vaccine. The researchers who authored the study come from different
British and Dutch universities, and all belong to the association
Universities Allied for Essential Medicines Europe, which aims to
improve global access to health and life-saving medicines.(rh) | 6/5/2021 |
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| Israel called to account | | Sam Bahour - Le Monde diplomatique - Normally, the New York Times
trusts Human Rights Watch and relies on the organization often. This
April alone, for instance, the Times has already cited the group 12
times, using its expertise on rights violations in places as varied as
Myanmar, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe. But the Times’s respectful view
disappeared suddenly yesterday — after Human Rights Watch released a
landmark report finding that “Israeli officials have committed the
crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution.”(rh) | 2/5/2021 |
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| The ‘NY Times’ article on Human Rights Watch ‘apartheid’ report is largely an attack on the finding | | JAMES NORTH - Mondoweiss - Normally, the New York Times trusts Human
Rights Watch and relies on the organization often. This April alone,
for instance, the Times has already cited the group 12 times, using
its expertise on rights violations in places as varied as Myanmar,
Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.
But the Times’s respectful view disappeared suddenly yesterday — after
Human Rights Watch released a landmark report finding that “Israeli
officials have committed the crimes against humanity of apartheid and
persecution.” The Times’s article on the HRW finding is biased. It is
supposed to be a news report, but it instead attacks the Human Rights
Watch finding before even summarizing it properly. Patrick Kingsley,
the Times‘s Jerusalem bureau chief, gave Kenneth Roth, executive
director, a single sentence quote — and then jumped immediately into a
4-paragraph denunciation. First, Mark Regev, an adviser to Benjamin
Netanyahu, charged that Human Rights Watch “has been plagued for years
by systemic anti-Israel bias.” (rh) | 2/5/2021 |
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| Amid growing Fatah rift, Abbas expected to postpone Palestinian legislative elections : The move to postpone elections comes as rifts continue to grow within the ruling Fatah party, with multiple contenders set to challenge the official slate presented by | | YUMNA PATEL - Mondoweiss - The prospect of holding long awaited
legislative elections in Palestine is quickly slipping away, as
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is expected to announce that the
elections, which have been 15 years in the making, will be delayed.
Abbas is expected to make the announcement on Thursday during a
meeting of senior Palestinian political leaders in Ramallah. Fatah
Central Committee member Mahmoud Aloul told the Voice of Palestine
radio on Thursday morning that the meeting will result in “a final
decision on the legislative elections,” which were set to be held on
May 22, adding that the topic of holding the elections in occupied
East Jerusalem would be the center of discussion. (rh) | 2/5/2021 |
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| Dozens killed in crush at Lag Baomer religious festival in Israel : Teams treating dozens of injured at Mount Meron as emergency medical group says at least 44 dead | | Oliver Holmes in Jerusalem, Harriet Sherwood and agencies - The
Guardian - At least 44 people have been killed and about 150 injured
in a crush at a Jewish religious gathering in northern Israel attended
by tens of thousands of people, in one of the country’s worst
peacetime disasters. Children were among the dead, Eli Beer, the
director of an Israeli volunteer ambulance service, United Hatzalah,
said. “Unfortunately, we found small children trampled there, and we
performed CPR. We were able to save some of them,” he told Army Radio.
(rh)
| 2/5/2021 |
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| State comptroller warned for years of overcrowding danger at Meron site | | TOI STAFF - Times of Israel - The state comptroller warned on at
least two occasions that the site at the Mount Meron compound was
dangerously ill-equipped for the hundreds of thousands who regularly
attend Lag B’Omer celebrations there, while an internal police report
in 2016 said that the chaos in the site’s management could lead to
disaster. At least 45 people were crushed to death and more than 150
people hurt, including many in critical condition, in a tragedy at a
mass gathering to celebrate the Lag B’Omer holiday at the Mount Meron
site in the early hours of Friday morning. | 2/5/2021 |
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| Ehud Olmert to `Post`: We are on the way to another Intifada - opinion : It’s a known fact that Palestinians are no responsible for most terrorist attacks take place in Jerusalem not responsible for any terrorist activity – this responsibility falls solel | | EHUD OLMERT - The Jerusalem Post - The events that have transpired in
Jerusalem these last few days are not a coincidental occurrence that
will disappear so quickly. We are on the brink of a violent awakening
that could intensify and lead to violence and acts of terrorism on our
streets. These clashes could end in a significant number of
casualties, among both Palestinians and Israelis. Twenty years ago, as
mayor of Jerusalem, I found myself in the eye of the storm that shook
our lives and threatened Israel’s security. Jerusalem was the main
target of the terrorist attacks – which took place on Jaffa Road, on
Pat Street not far from Teddy Stadium, at Sbarro Restaurant and Moment
Café and many other locations. I remember every horrible image from
these attacks – they will remain with me for the rest of my life.(rh) | 2/5/2021 |
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