21 November 2010 | Sam Bahour, Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) Sam Bahour is a Palestinian business management consultant living in Ramallah. This essay was made possible with partial support from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. When a project mixes ...
Read More »U.S. offers Israel warplanes in return for new settlement freeze
13 November|Haaretz Netanyahu presents security cabinet with Clinton’s incentive of 20 F-35 fighter planes and security guarantees in exchange for 90-day West Bank building moratorium. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s seven-member inner cabinet discussed Saturday an offer by the United States ...
Read More »The Palestinians of Israel are poised to take centre stage
11 November 2010 | Seumas Milne, The Guardian In a quiet street in the Sheikh Jarrah district of occupied East Jerusalem 88-year-old Rifka al-Kurd is explaining how she came to live in the house she and her husband built as ...
Read More »Operation Dove: South Hebron Hill Settlers attack Palestinian boy and internationals
21 October 2010 | Operation Dove At-Tuwani – On Thursday, 21st October, at around 9.20 am, two Operation Dove volunteers, coming back to the village of At-Tuwani after having visited some Palestinian families in the village of Tuba, were attacked ...
Read More »Three protests in Gaza: Israeli sniper shoots Palestinian man, leaving him in critical condition
A 20-year-old Palestinian man, Sliman Abu Hanza, is in a critical condition in hospital after being shot in the abdomen with a ‘dum dum’ bullet at a demonstration in Al-Faraheen, Khan Younis, on Sunday. The injury was inflicted during one ...
Read More »French human rights activist arrested at West Bank protest
26 September 2010 | ISM Media Beit Ummar, West Bank French activist Bruno de Ginestet-Puivert, 21, was arrested by Israeli authorities on Saturday 25 September demonstrating alongside Palestinians in the West Bank town of Beit Ummar, near Hebron. He is ...
Read More »Israeli police accused of targeting Jerusalem’s Arab residents
11 September 2010 | The Independent A leading civil-rights group has accused Israeli police of systematic discrimination against the Arab residents of East Jerusalem as growing numbers of hardline religious Jews take up residence in Palestinian areas. A report from ...
Read More »Aqraba inhabitants facing confiscation of yet more farmland to serve the expansion of an illegal settlement
9 September 2010 | ISM Media Aqraba, NABLUS On Monday 6th September, farmers in Aqraba were forbidden by the Israeli army to work on a 200 dunam area of land near the village. The land is currently in the process ...
Read More »One hundred settlers gather to violate construction freeze; Israeli soldiers threaten besieged Palestinian family
2 September 2010 | ISM Media Baqa’a valley, HEBRON Last night (1 Sept. 2010) around 150 to 175 Israeli settlers, many armed, constructed an illegal outpost at a new location in the Baqa’a valley, east of Hebron, and attempted to ...
Read More »Israeli academics boycott West Bank settlements
31 August 2010 | BBC News More than 150 Israeli academics say they will no longer lecture or work in Jewish settlements in the West Bank. In a letter, they said they supported the recent decision by a group of ...
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