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 when its water supply was cut off. About 55 structures including tents, shacks, clay ovens, sheep ...
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 sensitivity and seriousness of the conflict between Palestine and Israel. Perhaps without intending to do so, it appears by ...
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 catastrophe, commemorated annually to never forget.
By bombarding and besieging villages and ...
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 and resident of Al-Arish, located some 40 kilometres west of Rafah, told IPS. ...
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 outraged the Israeli Army. "It looks as though they were frightened by Goldstone," remarked an IDF ...
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 ...
