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A recipe for resentment
Ahmad Samih Khalidi | The Guardian 26 May 2009 The Obama administration is gearing up for its impending and possibly decisive moves towards relaunching the Middle East peace process, with a series of consultations with Arab leaders, including the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, later this week. After meeting with Barack Obama in Washington last week, the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, pressed his demand that the Palestinians should recognise Israel as a Jewish state, posing it…
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IAF planes drop intimidating pamphlets over Gaza
ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire 25 May 2009 Translation of leaflet (both leaflets have the same message with different maps): To the people of the strip: The Israeli Defense Forces repeat their alert forbidding the coming close to the border fence at a distance less than 300 metres who gets close will subject himself to danger whereby the IDF will take necessary procedures to drive him away which will include shooting when necessary he who…
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Settlements contaminate Palestinian water supply in Hebron
26 May 2009 In between the illegal settlments of Kyriat Arba, Givat Harsina and 2 military bases, live Palestinian families that face many hardships. Sewer water from the settlements contaminates their supply of clean water, often overflowing from the sewers. The Palestinian families are in need of repairing or building new homes, but are not allowed by Israel. A woman living in one of the houses near the settlements explained that Palestinians are not allowed to…
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