I refer to your brief item on page 33: “US peace push” The US envoy is said to be in Israel to persuade Israel to renew a 10 month “moratorium” on housing construction, something that P.M. Netanyahu has refused to do. The truth of the situation ought to be obvious to all. But it seems [...]
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Haaretz - 29 September 2010 ISSUED BY THE PALESTINE SOLIDARITY ALLIANCE-Today, Wednesday, 29 September 2010, the University of Johannesburg’s (UJ) highest academic body voted to conditionally terminate its partnership agreement with Israel’s Ben-Gurion University (BGU). The decision, made at UJ’s Soweto campus, stands as a historic first step in refusing institutional affiliations between South African [...]
by Frank Jordans - Google News - 30 September 2010 GENEVA — Palestinian human rights groups sharply criticized a U.N. resolution — backed by their own government — that delays action on a report alleging war crimes during the 2009 Gaza conflict. The vote Wednesday by the 47-nation U.N. Human Rights Council effectively freezes the [...]
by Yonatan Shapira - Occupation Magazine - 26 September 2010 The course is 120. Another 200 miles to the port in Cyprus and the automatic pilot in the boat, which is supposed to maintain the course, refuses to work and leaves me with the unending task of maintaining the course on a turbulent sea with [...]
by Ronnie Kasrils - The Guardian - 29 September 2010 When Chief Albert Luthuli made a call for the international community to support a boycott of apartheid South Africa in 1958, the response was a widespread and dedicated movement that played a significant role in ending apartheid. Amid the sporting boycotts, the pledges of playwrights [...]
by Mel Frykberg - IPS - 27 September 2010 SILWAN, Occupied East Jerusalem, Sep 27, 2010 (IPS) – Tension, the twisted carcasses of gutted vehicles, buses with smashed windows, smouldering dumpsters, streets riddled with rubber-coated steel bullets and empty cartridge cases, teargas, and air thickened with black soot from burning tyres marked the beginning of [...]
The cessation of the settlement moratorium was never in doubt to the Palestinian resident of Wadi Rahaal. by Nora Barrows-Friedman - Aljazeera - 28 September 2010 The one-lane road to Wadi Rahaal weaves its way through impossibly deep, rocky valleys, whose perimeters are speckled by Israeli settlements and settler outposts cascading from the hilltops. “It [...]
Aditi Bhaduri interviews Ilan Pappe - Times of India - 27 September 2010 ‘A One state solution in Israel is difficult but not impossible’ Ilan Pappe is an Israeli academic and one of Israel’s ‘new historians’, who has argued that Israel forcibly expelled Palestinians in 1948. Formerly a senior lecturer at the University of Haifa [...]
MEMO Middle Eastern Monitor - 29 September 2010 As the ramifications of the Israeli decision not to extend the moratorium on settlement building are being digested, statistics released by the Land Research Centre show that 120 illegal Jewish settlements were expanded during the 10 months of the supposed “freeze”. The centre’s director, Jamal Talab, said [...]