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St Germainsby Ahmed Moor - Mondoweiss - 30 October 2009
Something special is happening to the discourse about Palestine and Israel in the United States. New spaces are opening up where none existed before. For instance, some Palestinians, Israelis and Jews are talking openly about a one-state solution to the heretofore-intractable conflict. A greater number of [...]
The National - 31 October 2009
TEL AVIV // Every Friday, as midday prayers draw to a close, a few dozen people meet outside the small mosque in Bilin and march though the West Bank village, calling for an end to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory.
By the time they have entered a thin, dusty grove [...]
Al Jazeera’s Shihab Rattansi talks to Judge Richard Goldstone about the investigation into the Gaza war. He travelled to the United Nations in New York to find out if the war on Gaza has transformed Richard Goldstone from a sober jurist into a man on a mission to discredit Israel on an international stage.
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Editor’s note: As investigations and reports by numerous human rights groups are publicised about Israel’s war crimes and crimes against humanity in its attack on Gaza post-Christmas 2008, moves are also underway to quash the most recent damning UN-backed Goldstone Report not only by Israel, but also the United States. The US House of Representatives [...]
The Sydney Morning Herald - “Gaza fire sparks drama on stage” - 31 October 2009
Remarkably the passages deleted from the “Gaza fire sparks drama on stage” (Oct 31) story from a Guardian report tell of the Australian UN staff member Jodie Clark’s heroism:
“She saw shells land close by her, showering her with concrete. She telephoned [...]
The Jaber family says clashes with the Israeli authorities are a regular occurrence
by Phoebe Greenwood - Aljazeera - 31 October 2009
A major new road joining Jerusalem to Israeli settlements in Hebron bisects land owned by the Jaber family.
They have farmed these fields for 300 years. They once owned 60 dunums (60,000 square metres) [...]
Palestine News Network - 30 October 2009
The United Nations General Assembly is meeting Wednesday to discuss the Goldstone report that that states Israeli forces committed war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip.
Support has wavered, depending on who is talking, but the UN Human Rights Commission did adopt the report.
For the upcoming [...]
The Palestinian Information Center - 30 October 2009
Raji Al-Surani, the head of the Palestinian center for human rights, stated Wednesday that the new thing which sets Goldstone’s report apart is its talk about specific implementation mechanisms for the first time in the UN history.
During a workshop held by the forum of Palestinian journalists in [...]
The Palestinian Information Center - 30 October 2009
MOSCOW, (PIC)– The Israeli opposition leader, Tzipi Livni, said that the Israeli government was disappointed that Russia voted in favour of the Goldstone Report at the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva.
She added that it was not important now to discuss the reasons behind voting in favour of [...]
Ma’an News Agency - 30 October 2009
Aggressive settlers made a grab for a Palestinian home and unknown Jewish attackers stabbed two Palestinians in the Old City on Friday as tension in Jerusalem increases.
In the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Safafa, orthodox Israeli settlers attacked a family in a bid to take over their home [...]
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