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| The world isn’t buying what Israel’s selling in the West Bank | | Dan Perry - Times of Israel - n his famous thought experiment about
quantum mechanics, Erwin Schrödinger examined whether a cat can be
considered to be alive and dead at the same time. Israel’s West Bank
policy offers a modern variant that has in recent days hit the news.
When it suits Israel, the West Bank is part of the country. This is
the situation when Israel wants security control from the river to the
sea. Or when it wants Jews to be able to settle anywhere in the
historic Land of Israel. Or when it builds towns there essentially for
those Jews only. Or when it allows Israelis living in the same towns
to vote in Knesset elections (though Israelis living outside the
country cannot).(rh) | 25/7/2021 |
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| Report: Hezbollah commander, IRGC senior official killed in Israeli strikes | | 24NEWS - Ynetnews - Lebanese terror group confirms death of operative,
but does not specify circumstances; Iran yet to comment on killing of
Iranian official, with Al-Arabiya reporting he died in one of several
attacks in Syria this week.(rh) | 25/7/2021 |
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| Netanyahu: Israel will do all it can to counter Iran, even at expense of U.S. ties | | Itamar Eichner,Yoav Zitun - Ynetnews - PM says confronting existential
threat posed by Tehran is most important issue; Gantz hits back at
remarks, saying differences of opinion with Israel`s greatest ally must
be resolved through direct dialogue and not damaging confrontational
comments.(rh) | 25/7/2021 |
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| Israeli Arabs fired for `political position` on day of general strike | | Hassan Shaalan - Ynetnews - Employees of the Victory supermarket chain,
Israel Railways say they were dismissed for missing work on May 18, but
say the security situation, heavy police presence made it impossible for
them to leave their homes.(rh) | 25/7/2021 |
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| Lapid warns Poland ties ‘seriously’ harmed as Holocaust restitution law advances | | TOI STAFF -Times o Israel - Foreign Minister Yair Lapid warned Poland
on Friday that their actions were seriously harming ties with Israel
after a bill on Holocaust restitution advanced in the Polish Senate.
The Senate okayed a bill Friday that will place a 10-to-30-year cutoff
date on contesting past administrative decisions on restitution.
Critics of the law argue that it will effectively cut off the ability
of Jews to reclaim property that was seized before and during the
Holocaust. “The passage of the polish property law now in Warsaw will
seriously harm our relations with Poland. Poland knows very well what
is the correct and proper thing to do,” Lapid said in his latest
broadside in the escalating rift between the two countries.(rh)
| 25/7/2021 |
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| IDF: Palestinian hurling firebombs, rocks shot in West Bank; 2 others arrested | | TOI STAFF - A Palestinian assailant who was throwing firebombs and
rocks at an Israeli car was shot in the West Bank on Saturday, the
army said.Two other suspects were arrested after a chase, the Israel
Defense Forces said. The military said the three Palestinians were
hurling Molotov cocktails and stones at an Israeli vehicle near the
settlement of Mevo Dotan. Soldiers moved to arrest them and thwart a
potential terror attack, opening fire in their direction and hitting
one suspect. His condition was not immediately known. (rh) | 25/7/2021 |
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| Billionaires in Space | | A.M. GITTLITZ - The Nation - Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson`s recent
luxury space flights represent a reversal of Neil Armstrong’s declaration
that space travel was in the interest of all mankind. Instead of a cosmic
commons, writes A.M. Gittlitz, space is now being treated as a frontier
of private resource extraction and militarization.(rh) | 25/7/2021 |
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| Bennett’s office backpedals after he seems to say Jews can pray on Temple Mount | | TOI STAFF - Times of Israel - Sources in the Prime Minister’s Office
also told Army Radio that Bennett had misspoken on Sunday when he said
both Jews and Muslims have “freedom of worship” on the Temple Mount,
which would be a potentially explosive change after decades of Jews
being permitted only to visit, but not pray, there. Despite the
sources’ comments, Bennett’s remarks remained unchanged on his English
and Hebrew social media feeds as of Monday afternoon. (rh) | 25/7/2021 |
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| Settlements are War Crimes: Time to Hold South Africa’s World Zionist Organization Accountable | | Iqbal Jassat - Palestine Chronicle - Michael Lynk, UN special
rapporteur on human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
(OPT), has made damning findings on Israel’s illegal settlements. In
his report on Friday to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), he made a
strong case for the settlements to be classified as war crimes.In his
argument, Lynk asserted that the settlements are a violation of the
absolute prohibition against “settler implantation” and insisted that
UN member states not ignore Israeli transgressions For Israel as an
occupying power to transfer its own population to the OPT, is not only
defiance of international laws, it directly prejudices Palestinians
who are confronted with brutalities at the hands of settlers including
ethnic cleansing. The injustices flowing from the implantation of
settlements are reprehensible, immoral and senseless. Yet despite
these obvious deviations of civilized values, Israel continues
regardless. (rh) | 25/7/2021 |
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| ‘Palestinian Spring’ not such a good deal | | Mark Lavie - Ynetnews - The most significant similarity between the
latest protests against the Palestinian Authority and the Egyptian Arab
Spring of 2011 is that the only well-organized alternative to Mahmoud
Abbas and his reeling Fatah movement is an Islamist group, in this case
Hamas(rh) | 18/7/2021 |
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| Palestinians happy to see Netanyahu go, but fear more of the same in Bennett | | AARON BOXERMAN - Times of Israel - Two senior Palestinian politicians
were skeptical that an Israeli government led by Yamina chief Naftali
Bennett would change Palestinian reality for the better in phone calls
with The Times of Israel on Monday. On Monday afternoon, several key
members of the opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
announced their commitment to forming a government without him. Many
Palestinians dislike Netanyahu, viewing his 12-year tenure as years
that saw their national cause reach a historic nadir.(rh)
| 18/7/2021 |
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| Israel’s most racist law comes crumbling down — for now | | Edo Konrad - 972mag - At the stroke of midnight between Tuesday and
Wednesday, one of Israel’s most draconian, anti-Palestinian laws will
expire, enabling thousands of Palestinians in the occupied territories
to apply to reunite with their spouses and families, and to begin
their path to gaining Israeli citizenship. The Citizenship and Entry
into Israel Law — commonly known as the Ban on Family Unification — is
an emergency order that has been extended on a yearly basis by every
successive Israeli government since its implementation in 2003, during
the Second Intifada. The newly sworn-in government, however, failed to
extend the order with a simple majority during a raucous Knesset
session that lasted well into the early hours of Monday morning. The
law’s expiration will allow Palestinians who for years have been
denied one of their most basic human rights to restart the process of
seeking permanent residency with their loved ones in Israel.Supporters
of the bill argue that the order both strengthens Israel’s security
against potential attacks by newly-naturalized Palestinian residents,
while protecting its Jewish demographic majority by blocking
Palestinians’ path to citizenship. Israel’s High Court itself has
twice upheld the law, both times by a single vote.(rh)
| 18/7/2021 |
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| Palestinians call for release of Khalida Jarrar to attend the funeral of her daughter, Suha | | YUMNA PATEL - Mondoweiss - Palestinians are demanding the release of
Palestinian parliamentarian and leader Khalida Jarrar from Israeli
prison following the sudden death of her daughter and human rights
advocate, Suha Jarrar. Suha Ghassan Jarrar, 30, was found dead in her
apartment in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah late Sunday
evening, according to local media. She reportedly died of natural
causes. Her mother, Khalida Jarrar, is a member of the Palestinian
Legislative Council (PLC) and leader in the secular Marxist-Lenninist
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) party. Khalida is
currently a political prisoner in Israel, serving a two year sentence
for the “the offense of holding office in the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine.” Upon hearing the news from her lawyers while
in prison, Khalida reportedly said: “The news is very painful. It
hurts because I miss Suha, my sweetheart. Say hello to everyone and
let them take care of each other. Let them know I am strong.”(rh)
| 18/7/2021 |
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| In the peak of summer, West Bank demolitions leave 70 Palestinians homeless | | Oren Ziv - 0972mag - On Wednesday morning, in temperatures reaching
past 104 degrees Fahrenheit, Israeli forces demolished the Palestinian
village of Khirbet Humsa in the occupied West Bank for the sixth time
in less than a year.Israeli military and Civil Administration forces
arrived at the Jordan Valley village at around 7 a.m. and began
dismantling residents’ tents, confiscating them and loading them —
along with their contents — onto an army truck. The truck then
deposited the equipment over seven miles away. The IDF brought
civilian buses to the site where the residents’ homes and belongings
had been unloaded; however, the residents did not board the vehicles
for fear that they were going to be expelled even further away.
Instead, they fled for the hills and stayed until the army had left,
around 6 p.m. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the Civil Administration — the Israeli
military’s administrative arm in the West Bank — demolished 27
residential structures and animal shelters, as well as water tanks.
They also took food packages, effectively leaving the community
without food and water. Israeli forces further confiscated personal
items, including milk for children, clothes, personal hygiene
products, and plants. Eleven households, which were home to around 70
people — including 36 children — lost their dwelling. (rh)
| 18/7/2021 |
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| Israel’s Violations of Palestinian Workers’ Rights: COVID-19 and Systemic Abuse | | Ihab Maharmeh - Al-Shabaka - The rights of Palestinian workers1 in
Israel and illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank have been the
subject of increasing violations since the outbreak of the COVID-19
pandemic. On 17 March 2020, former Israeli Security Minister Naftali
Bennett announced a series of special provisions to regulate the labor
and accommodations of Palestinian workers from the West Bank in an
effort to curb rising COVID-19 cases among the Israeli population.
While the provisions have allowed those with work permits and those
under the age of 50 to enter and exit Israeli territories, they
require that workers coordinate their work and accommodation with
their Israeli employers, and prohibit them from returning to the West
Bank during the period of their work contracts. In addition to these
strict provisions, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh
ordered these workers to immediately return and quarantine in their
homes for 14 days, while calling on Palestinian security services and
popular emergency committees across the West Bank to tighten measures
to prevent workers from traveling. The announcement came as the first
COVID-19 fatality was recorded in the West Bank: a woman in the town
of Biddu, northwest of Jerusalem, who contracted the disease from her
son, a laborer in the industrial settlement of Atarot in Jerusalem.
(rh) | 18/7/2021 |
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| The Ascension of Bernie Sanders | | Maureen Dowd - Portside - At 79, Bernie Sanders is a man on a mission,
laser-focused on a list that represents trillions of dollars in
government spending that he deems essential. When I stray into other
subjects, the senator jabs his finger at his piece of paper or waves
it in my face, like Van Helsing warding off Dracula with a cross.
“Maureen, let me just tell you what we’re trying to do here,” he says.
“We’re working on what I think is the most consequential piece of
legislation for working families since the 1930s.” Sanders, long a
wilderness prophet in Washington, a man who wrote a memoir bragging
about being an outsider, admits that it is strange to be a key member
of The Establishment. As the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee,
the democratic socialist is now pulling the levers in the control
room.(rh)
| 18/7/2021 |
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| Hope for fractured Palestinian families as Israel law ends | | Aljazeera - Ramallah, Occupied West Bank – Thousands of Palestinians
living in limbo and fear have been given a glimmer of hope in regard
to living legally with their families after the Israeli government
recently failed to renew its controversial Citizenship and Entry into
Israel Law. The law prevents Palestinian spouses from living together
legally in occupied East Jerusalem, or Israel proper, if one partner
is from the West Bank and the other Jerusalem or Israel – unless they
can secure special permits.(rh) | 18/7/2021 |
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| Report: Israeli Forces Arrested 5,426 Palestinians in 2021 | | Palestine Chronicle - A total of 854 children and 107 women were among
those detained since the beginning of this year, said a report by the
Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner Society, the
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, and the Wadi
Hilweh Information Center.(rh) | 18/7/2021 |
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| Palestinian Authority covering up critic’s death, family says | | Aljazeera - The family of a political activist who died in the custody
of Palestinian security forces last month has accused the Palestinian
Authority (PA) of trying to cover up his death. Relatives of Nizar
Banat, 43, said on Saturday they still have not received a document
with an official cause of death, and said the PA has made efforts to
settle the matter out of court. (rh) | 18/7/2021 |
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| Poll finds a quarter of US Jews think Israel is ‘apartheid state’ | | RON KAMPEAS - Times of Israel - Also, 22% of respondents believe ‘Israel is committing genocide’; 67% say denying Jewish state’s right to exist is antisemitic. 58%, said it would be appropriate to restrict aid to Israel so it could not spend US money on settlements. A majority, 62%, support Biden’s reversal of Trump’s policy of cutting off aid to the Palestinians. US Jewish community to a degree became alienated from Israel during the 12 years Benjamin Netanyahu was prime minister. [bz] | 15/7/2021 |
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| Minister says at-risk Israelis can get COVID booster; HMOs unaware of plan | | NATHAN JEFFAY - Times of Israel - Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz said
that COVID booster shots are now available to at-risk adults — but
transplant recipients and others trying to book an appointment are
being told that no such vaccines have been authorized. “From now we’re
giving a third shot to people who are immunocompromised,” Horowitz
told national broadcaster Kan on Sunday morning, in comments that
suggest Israel has overnight become the first country to be offering
third vaccine doses. The Health Ministry is evaluating whether to
offer boosters to the whole population, added Horowitz.(rh) | 11/7/2021 |
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| Israel to withhold nearly NIS 600 million from PA over terror payments | | JUDAH ARI GROSS - Times of Israel - The security cabinet has voted to
withhold nearly NIS 600 million ($184 million) from the Palestinian
Authority to offset funds that it paid to terrorists and their
families in the past year, the Prime Minister’s Office says. According
to a report prepared by the Defense Ministry, the PA transferred NIS
597 million ($182.82 million) in “indirect support for terror in
2020,” the PMO says. “In light of this report, these funds will be
frozen from the monthly payments that Israel transfers to the PA,”
according to the PMO. (rh)
| 11/7/2021 |
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| Improbable coalition of three rivals readies to topple Netanyahu | | Ben Caspit - Al-Monitor - Reports say that Knesset member Yair Lapid,
chair of the centrist Yesh Atid party, will be making an inconceivable
statement today, June 1. For the first time in 12 years, a mortal
whose name is not Benjamin Netanyahu will inform the president that he
has the votes to install Israel’s next government. Almost as strange
and unprecedented is the fact that Lapid himself will not head the
government that he toiled to compose, handing the job instead to the
leader of a different party, Yamina Chair Naftali Bennett. Lapid has
been working diligently for the past month to put together one of the
most complex coalition governments in Israeli history, knowing that
the only way to make it work is to let Bennett serve as prime minister
for the first two years of the government’s term. Israelis are deeply
divided over this impending change, which comes with an important
caveat given the vagaries of recent Israeli history: It isn’t over
until it’s over. The Netanyahu era, which seemed eternal, will only
end when the last minister of the Bennett-Lapid government is sworn in
by the Knesset, probably on June 8. Only then will Lapid and his
coalition partners sigh in relief, along with at least half of
Israel’s voting public. The other half will scream, demonstrate,
curse, threaten and who knows, perhaps recreate the Jan. 6 invasion of
the Capitol, Israel-style. (rh)
| 11/7/2021 |
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| IDF chief in Washington warns against return to Iran nuke deal | | JOSHUA DAVIDOVICH - Times of Israel - In first visit since Biden took
office, Aviv Kohavi tells top Pentagon officials that existing pact
allows Tehran to make ‘significant advances’ in nuclear program (rh)
| 11/7/2021 |
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| Sanders rips GOP for remaining `loyal to the Big Lie` | | Jake Johnson - Alternet - After Senate Republicans unanimously blocked
debate on a far-reaching and popular voting rights bill, Sen. Bernie
Sanders of Vermont late Tuesday joined the chorus demanding an end to
the 60-vote legislative filibuster and slammed the GOP for remaining
"loyal to the Big Lie that Donald Trump won the 2020 election." "It is
a disgrace that at a time when authoritarianism, conspiracy theories,
and political violence are on the rise, not a single Republican in the
United States Senate has the courage to even debate whether we should
protect American democracy or not," Sanders said in a statement.
"Meanwhile, in state houses and governor`s mansions across the
country, Republicans are shamefully working overtime to make it harder
for poor people, people of color, young people, and people with
disabilities to participate in the American democratic system."(rh)
| 11/7/2021 |
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| Documenting Israeli settlement growth in the occupied West Bank | | Katya Bohdan - Aljazeera - Israeli researcher Dror Etkes has been
documenting the construction of illegal settlements and outposts in the
occupied West Bank for two decades. He shows Al Jazeera’s Stefanie Dekker
how they’ve expanded. Edited by Katya Bohdan.(rh) | 11/7/2021 |
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| Israeli settlers: The face of US imperialism in the Middle East | | Haythem Guesmi - Aljazeera - The Zionist nationalist march,
celebrating the anniversary of Israel’s 1967 occupation of East
Jerusalem, had eerie similarities not only with last century’s Nazi
rallies in Europe, but also with the more recent examples of racial
hatred we have seen on the other side of the Atlantic, in the United
States. For example, watching last month’s so-called “March of the
flags” in Jerusalem, it was difficult not to be reminded of the 2017
white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, where American
white nationalists carrying tiki torches chanted slogans like “You
will not replace us” and “The South will rise again”. Perhaps the only
difference between these two public declarations of racial hatred and
the genocidal intention was the fact that, unlike their American
counterparts, the Israeli racists faced no backlash or punishment.(rh) | 11/7/2021 |
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| Expiry of Citizenship Law is a headache for Israel, not a disaster | | Tova Tsimuky - Ynetnews - Although Israel`s security will not be
harmed and Palestinians married to Israelis will not be flooding into
the country, a heavy bureaucratic burden will fall on Interior
Ministry and Shin Bet who will have to examine every individual case,
and the courts who will have to hear multiple appeals. (rh)
| 11/7/2021 |
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| Why does Mansour Abbas make Arab and Jewish politicians uneasy? | | Marcy Oster/The Media Line - Ynetnews - Arab leaders have roundly
criticized the Ra`am chairman for negotiating with Lapid and Bennett
to become part of the coalition, while right-wing politicians were
unhappy with a government that includes an Arab party for the first
time; but Abbas says he is choosing pragmatism over ideology.(rh)
| 11/7/2021 |
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| Israel’s Bennett, Jordan`s king meet secretly, make water deal | | Rina Bassist - Al Monitor - The Israeli press reported July 8 that
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett had secretly met with Jordan`s King
Abdullah II in his Amman palace last week. Bennett`s office did not
confirm this report. According to a former unnamed senior Israeli
official, cited by Walla news, the meeting was very positive.
Reportedly, Bennett informed the king at the beginning of the meeting
that Israel would agree to sell the kingdom more water than the quota
provided by the 1994 bilateral peace agreement. Jordan needs the deal
to confront a devastating water shortage. Last week, the Israeli press
reported that Bennett had given his initial approval for the sale of
an additional 50 million cubic meters of water to Jordan, but reports
did not mention any direct contacts between the leaderships of both
countries. If the deal is realized, it would be the largest sale of
water from Israel to Jordan since the peace treaty, which provides for
an automatic allocation of 55 million cubic meters of water on an
annual basis at 3 US cents per cubic meter.(rh)
| 11/7/2021 |
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| The Myth of Coexistence in Israel | | Diana Buttu - New York Times - Secretary of State Antony Blinken is
visiting Israel and plans to visit the West Bank in an attempt to
bolster Friday’s cease-fire, which halted Israel’s bombing campaign in
Gaza and Hamas’s rocket attacks on Israel. On Tuesday, Mr. Blinken
spoke in Jerusalem about his intention to “rally international
support” to aid Gaza and rebuild what was destroyed. Despite the
cease-fire, protests by Palestinians in Jerusalem and elsewhere have
continued, the Israeli police have arrested scores of Palestinians in
the West Bank and East Jerusalem and Israeli settlers have persisted
in their provocations.The fault lines in Israeli society have never
been clearer and Jerusalem remains the tinder box that could ignite
another catastrophic fire unless the underlying causes — Israel’s
occupation of the Palestinian territories and its highly
discriminatory policies — are dealt with. (rh) | 4/7/2021 |
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| Netanyahu plots comeback | | Ben Caspit - Al-Monitor - Up until June 28, Benjamin Netanyahu’s
official website referred to him as prime minister of Israel. More
than two weeks after being removed from office, former Prime Minister
Netanyahu still finds it hard to believe he has been ousted, and adapt
to a changed reality. His Likud party’s lawmakers still call him
“prime minister,” and all parties of the Likud-led opposition have
been instructed clearly to reject the legitimacy of the new
government, to ignore the regime change, to dub Prime Minister Naftali
Bennett a “conman” and the government he leads “the greatest political
fraud in the history of the state.” They act as if they still control
the Knesset, refusing to accept the voters’ verdict and the June 13
swearing-in of the government that replaced theirs. Netanyahu is
having trouble bidding farewell to the power, authority and perks of
office. His family continues to reside in the official prime
minister’s residence in Jerusalem, after Bennett agreed to delay his
move there for a few weeks. Netanyahu is now trying to force the Likud
to cover his private expenses, much like his years in government. He
does not have a credit card, he only just got a cellphone, he has not
driven a car in ages and he has no inkling of how ordinary Israelis
manage their daily lives. Evidently, he sees no reason to adapt.
Instead, he is running around the country, walking barefoot along the
beach in the town of Bat Yam, drawing attention and posing for
selfies, basking in the love of his many supporters who also continue
to refer to him as “prime minister.” This is one of the toughest
hangovers in the annals of Israel’s history. (rh)
| 4/7/2021 |
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| Murder of Nizar Banat by PA Security Forces Exposes Mahmoud Abbas as Lackey of Israel | | Iqbal Jassat - Palestine Chronicle - “Why was he killed?” is the cry
of Palestinians protesting the brutal murder of Nizar Banat. Demanding
answers and justice, protesters have directed their anger at the
Palestinian Authority (PA), whose security forces have been accused of
being responsible for Banat’s death. According to the author and
activist Mazen Qumsiyeh based in Bethlehem, 43-year-old Nizar Banat
became a victim of “the dictatorial and delusional rule of Mahmoud
Abbas”. His death at the hands of Abbas’s thugs has erupted fury
across the Occupied Palestinian Territories and reignited demands for
the immediate suspension of Oslo-birthed PA security forces.(rh) | 4/7/2021 |
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| Dozens injured as occupation forces attack West Bank protests | | RAMALLAH, Friday, July 02, 2021 (WAFA) – Dozens of Palestinians
sustained light to moderate injuries today when Israeli occupation
forces attacked the weekly protests against colonial Israeli
settlements, which usually take place every Friday across the occupied
West Bank, according to local and medical sources. In Nablus, north of
the occupied West Bank, Israeli soldiers fired rubber-coated metal
rounds and stun grenades at Palestinians who demonstrated at Jabal
Sabih mount, near the village of Beita, injuring 135 protesters, of
whom seven were hospitalized while the others were treated at the
scene. An ambulance was also hit by a teargas canister. Another 79
protesters sustained suffocation from gas inhalation. The protesters
were demonstrating against Israel’s construction of an illegal
settlement outpost called Evyatar on the mount. (rh)
Israeli occupation soldiers also attacked a nonviolent protest in the
nearby village of Beit Dajan, but there were no reports of casualties. | 4/7/2021 |
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| Israel Bombs Gaza for Third Time since Ceasefire | | Palestine Chronicle - Israeli airstrikes hit the besieged Gaza Strip
last night in the third such incident since a ceasefire was signed
between resistance factions in the enclave and the occupation, a
Palestinian security source said. According to the source, several
missiles hit a training site used by an armed Palestinian faction,
south of Gaza City, and a site in the center of the Strip was also
targeted. No casualties have been reported. (rh) | 4/7/2021 |
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| IT’S TIME FOR SANCTIONS | | Ben Jamal - New Internationalist - On 1 July, the Israeli government
paused its plans to annex swathes of the West Bank, apparently needing
more time to finesse the finer details with the US Administration. So
continued the dynamic of Donald Trump’s so called ‘peace deal’, with
the US and Israel sequestered in virtual rooms dotting the I’s and
crossing the T’s on the blueprints of the plans that will shape the
future of the Palestinian people. There is a legitimate school of
thought that views whether Israel proceeds to annex the full 30 per
cent of the West Bank marked out in Trump’s plan, or even a lesser
percentage of the territory, as an irrelevance when considering the
real impact on the lives of the Palestinians affected. As Salem
Barahmeh of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy recently
noted, ‘if you ask Palestinians in the Jordan Valley how they feel
about annexation, many will tell you that they thought we had already
been annexed long ago.’(rh)
| 4/7/2021 |
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| The Stolen Childhood of Palestinian Kids | | Galia Oz - Haaretz - Sujoud is 12, and she tells the camera, matter-
of-factly, about a man who approached her and her friends in a
threatening manner as they walked to school in the adjacent village of
A-Tuwani, in the West Bank South Hebron Hills. When she was 6, she
suffered head injuries when she was assaulted by masked men. When
asked if she still thinks about what happened then, she replies:
Sometimes. Not always.The indicted prime minister was ousted and the
demonstrators outside his home have left, but Sujoud is still waiting
for us to wave the black flag of the protest movement for her.
Volunteers from the human rights organization Machsom Watch invited me
to see the latest injustice in Sujoud’s corner of the West Bank –
concrete barriers placed at the entrance to A-Tuwani during Israel’s
latest round of violence against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The army did
not make do with this, and it deployed a Caterpillar D9 armored
bulldozer that made the rough dirt road impassable.(rh) | 4/7/2021 |
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| Palestinian children feel abandoned amid home demolitions: NGO | | Aljazeera - Four out of five children in the occupied West Bank and
East Jerusalem whose homes have been demolished by Israeli authorities
say they have lost faith that anyone can help or protect them and feel
“abandoned by the world”, child rights organisation Save the Children
has found. The report published on Monday comes as Palestinians living
in the Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan neighbourhoods of occupied East
Jerusalem face expulsion from their homes to make way for Israeli
settlers, pending decisions by the Israeli Supreme Court. (rh) | 4/7/2021 |
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| Who is the Palestinian Authority protecting? Not us. | | Mariam Barghouti - Washington Post - On the afternoon of June 24, I
watched, shaken and still, as Palestinian special police fired tear
gas at Palestinian protesters demanding accountability for the killing
of Nizar Banat, a vocal critic of the Palestinian Authority’s policies
and corruption. I had been here before. I have witnessed Palestinian
security forces beat Palestinians in the streets and target dissidents
in August 2012, July 2013, April 2014, 2017, 2018 and 2019. In 2017, I
witnessed Palestinian riot police and national guard forces impede
Palestinian protesters near the illegal settlement of Beit El. I have
seen Palestinian police spit at women walking in Ramallah city center,
because they previously protested against the violence of the
Palestinian Authority. The horrors, like those of Israeli crimes, are
too ubiquitous to describe. The only consistency is that the violence,
in all of its forms and different uniforms, sustains Israeli
colonialism. (rh) | 4/7/2021 |
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