Veröffentlicht: 1. September 2010
August 23, 2010
Occupied Palestine Aug 23rd 2010 - The Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) has divested from two Israeli companies, Africa Israel Investments and Danya Cebus, over their involvement in construction of illegal settlements in the West Bank[1]. A government statement quoted the Norwegian...
Veröffentlicht: 17. August 2010
by Stephen Lendman, www.uruknet.de, August, 14, 2010
"THIS BEACH IS POLLUTED" signs dot Gaza City beaches, posing serious health hazards because of daily raw sewage dumped into the Mediterranean Sea through 16 discharge sites along the coast. Yet thousands fill them despite the dangers, including children, taking advantage of one of their few sources...
Veröffentlicht: 5. August 2010
By Robert Fisk, August 01, 2010 "The Independent" - -The death of five Israeli servicemen in a helicopter crash in Romania this week raised scarcely a headline.
There was a Nato-Israeli exercise in progress. Well, that's OK then. Now imagine the death of five Hamas fighters in a helicopter crash in Romania this week. We'd still be investigating this extraordinary phenomenon. Now mark you, I'm not comparing Israel and Hamas. Israel is the country that...
Veröffentlicht: 3. August 2010
by PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity) # 494, July 30 , 2010
The Israeli army destroys the Palestinian village of Farasiya in the Jordan Valley
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Israel continues unabated.
On July 19th the Israeli army destroyed the West Bank village of Farasiya that had earlier been cleared out...
Veröffentlicht: 3. August 2010
by Alternative Tourism Group, 29 July 2010
Dear Mr Giguere, and OECD officials,
We are amazed and appalled at your announcement that the OECD Tourism Committee will hold its annual Conference in Jerusalem in October 2010. It appears that the OECD and the deliberative processes within it seem to have belittled the...
Veröffentlicht: 28. July 2010
by Stephen Lendman, July 24, 2010, www.uruknet.de
The new plan updates older ones, going back to the first, what Israeli historian Ilan Pappe documented in his 2006 book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, on David Ben-Gurion’s Plan D (Dalet in Hebrew), his final master plan following Plans A, B and C, what Palestinians call the Nakba, the...
Veröffentlicht: 28. July 2010
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa Al-Omrani, www.uruknet.info?p=68310
CAIRO, Jul 26, 2010 (IPS) - Almost two months since Egypt announced it would reopen its Rafah border terminal with the Gaza Strip, operation of the crossing remains sorely limited.
"Rafah has only been opened to passengers and some medical supplies," Hatem el-Buluk, journalist...
Veröffentlicht: 27. July 2010
Max Blumenthal, July 25, 2010, www.uruknet.info?p=68281
A report quietly submitted by IDF Military Advocate General Avichai Mandelblit to the United Nations two weeks ago regarding Israel’s conduct during Operation Cast Lead confirms the key findings of the Goldstone Report. The report (full version here), which documents 150 ongoing investigations, has...
Veröffentlicht: 1. July 2010
Haaretz 28 June 2010; The Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee is set to approve a master plan that calls for the expansion of Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem. By Akiva Eldar and Nir Hasson
The Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee is set to approve an unprecedented master plan that calls for the expansion of Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, a move largely based on construction on privately owned Arab property.
The committee's proposal would...
Veröffentlicht: 1. July 2010
Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 28 June 2010
As Israel this week declared the “easing” of the four-year blockade of Gaza, an official explained the new guiding principle: “Civilian goods for civilian people.” The severe and apparently arbitrary restrictions on foodstuffs entering the enclave – coriander bad, cinnamon good – will finally...