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Umm Al-Kheir, Where Freedom Stands For Demolition
Umm al-Kheir means ‘Mother of Freedom' in Arabic. But the eighty residents of this little Bedouin community in the South Hebron Hills aren't free at all. Palestine Monitor met with shepherd community in Umm al-Kheir. - Eye-Witness / 2nd-col-1st-article, Settlements, Occupation, House demolition more >>
EU Parliament Backs Goldstone Report
A resolution voted by the European Parliament last Wednesday demands a strong EU common position on the follow-up of the Goldstone Report and close monitoring of its implementing measures. - News / 2nd-col-2nd-article, Gaza, Impunity more >>
Progressive Jews Welcome Defeat of Motion Condemning Israeli Apartheid Week
March 12, 2010 Independent Jewish Voices (IJV)...welcomes yesterday's defeat of MP Tim Uppal's House of Commons motion condemning Israeli Apartheid Week..."This shows courage to stand up to the Orwellian attempts by Israel's supporters to bully Israel's critics into silence..." read more more >>
Israel Seals Off West Bank as Tensions Rise
By Matthew Kalman - Daily Telegraph [Israeli] Defence Minister Ehud Barak ordered the army to cut off the [West Bank] until midnight on Saturday, citing a heightened risk of attacks...Israel also limited access to Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Only worshippers with Israeli identity cards and aged over 50 were permitted. read more more >>
Israeli Settlement Expansions Continue
All Israeli settlements are illegal under international law. read more more >>
Welcome to the World's First Murdochracy
By John Pilger - March 12, 2010 What is a murdochracy? It is where the fealty and augmentation of [media mogul Rupert] Murdoch's editors and managers are undisguised, an inspiration to his choir on seven continents...Dominant themes in the Australian murdochracy...are the promotion of war and jingoism, American foreign policy, Israel and a paternalism toward Aborigines, the world's most impoverished indigenous people... read more more >>
Interview: Education and resistance at the Ann Arbor Palestine film fest
The second annual Ann Arbor Palestine Film Festival opened on Wednesday, 10 March with the feature film Pomegranates and Myrrh. Such festivals are a growing phenomenon with new ones popping up throughout the United States. The Electronic Intifada contributor Jimmy Johnson spoke with festival organizers Hena Ashraf, Ryah Aqel, Lauren Thams and Pomegranates and Myrhh director Najwa Najjar. more >>
Flouting its own laws, EU accommodates "Made in Israel"
In 2008 Britain expressed concern about how goods originating from Israeli settlements in the West Bank may be benefiting illegally from European Union trade preferences that theoretically only apply to businesses within Israel's internationally-recognized borders. However, EU officials have not only failed to defend international law, they have accommodated Israel's abuse of it. David Cronin analyzes for The Electronic Intifada. more >>
Gaza Protesters Defence Campaign launched
A defence campaign is being mounted against the lengthy sentences handed to young Muslims who protested a year ago about Israel's brutal invasion of Gaza. more >>
BRD: Missbrauchsskandal(-e!)
Der Missbrauchsskandal in der Katholischen Kirche erreicht nun auch Papst Benedikt XVI. In das Bistum des damaligen Erzbischofs Ratzinger wurde in den achtziger Jahren ein pädophil belasteter Priester versetzt - der sich dort erneut an Jugendlichen verging. In der Amtszeit von Papst Benedikt XVI. als Erzbischof von München und Freising ist ein wegen Kindesmissbrauchs vorbelasteter Priester in der Gemeindearbeit der Diözese eingesetzt worden. Dort verging er sich erneut an Jugendlichen und wurde dafür verurteilt. Das bestätigte das Erzbischöfliche Ordinariat in München der "Süddeutschen Zeitung". more >>
Sending a laptop to Gaza
I sat outdoors at a cafe on the Mediterranean Sea in al-Arish, a dusty seaside town in Egypt's northern Sinai. I drank a tea and smoked a water pipe; it gave me something to do while I waited for Ismail -- that's not his real name -- an Egyptian Bedouin tunnel smuggler who was going to deliver a package for me into Gaza. Ahmed Moor writes from al-Arish. more >>
West Bank administration bans ceremony for the Palestinian resistance fighter
The “Palestinian Authority”, which is the puppet administration in the West Bank, is now allowing Israel to dictate which Palestinians may or may not be honoured by the Palestinian people. Permissible: celebration of collaborator Mohammad Dahlan’s birthday. Not permissible: any Palestinian with dignity. more >>
Israel- Expansionism even as Joe Biden arrives to negotiate a settlement between Israel and the bele
..imbalance of power in Middle East - a drastic solution The UN mandate 424 demands that Israel return to it's pre '67 borders. She has refused to do so in 40 years. Israel 's hegemony in the region is manifest in her military and social expansionist policies . She ignores the rest of the world , perpetrates whatever atrocities she chooses with impunity. When criticized by the Goldstein report she attacked Goldstein , then attacken the UN for having the timerity to criticize her invasion of Lebanon and killing of over 1400 civilians. There is one bizarre and paradoxical for a recalibrating the balance of power in the Middle East.... more >>
Amnesty: Israel must stop settlement expansion in East Jerusalem
Amnesty International is reiterating its call on the Israeli government to cease constructing or expanding illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) after a plan to build 1,600 new Israeli settler homes in East Jerusalem was officially approved. more >>
Second annual Ann Arbor Palestine film fest opens with "Pomegranates and Myrrh"
The second annual Ann Arbor Palestine Film Festival opened on 10 March 2010 at the Michigan Theater with hundreds of attendees for Najwa Najjar's Pomegranates and Myrrh. The film festival showcases films about Palestine and by Palestinian directors. Educating through the screen arts, the film festival amplifies the voice of the Palestinian people as a nation and diaspora by bringing films to the fore that would not otherwise be seen. more >>
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Poland: Demonstration in support of the Rozbrat squat, Poznan, 8 March 2010
from email, 9 March 2010: "On Monday, 8th March, about 50 people from Rozbrat squat Collective made a demonstration in front of the gate of Poznan International Fair Center, where a congress of local councils from all over Poland was taking place. Shouting slogans “City is not a company. Rozbrat stays!”, the anarchists blockaded the gate. Many cars with the officials were forced to turn back..." more
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