After being in business for nearly ten years, The Palestine Chronicle (www.palestinechronicle.com) has launched its interactive video website today, Wednesday, April 29. The new website can be accessed at http://videos.palestinechronicle.com and www.justmedia.net and provides readers and users a platform to upload original videos or link to existing videos at other websites, namely youtube, google and [...]
Apr 30 2009 | Posted in
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Ghassan Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies The Israeli Jerusalem municipality announced on Wednesday that it had finalized all the preparations needed to demolish 50 Palestinian-owned homes in Jerusalem. The homes are located at Al Bustan neighborhood just outside the old city of Jerusalem. On February of this year the Israeli Jerusalem municipality announced plans to [...]
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Kim Bullimore Testimony given by Israeli soldiers involved in Israel’s 22-day December-January assault on Gaza to a pre-military preparatory program at the Oranim Academic College in Israel on February 13, and which the March 18 Haaretz daily began printing daily excerpts of, revealed that they repeatedly committed crimes with impunity in Gaza. One soldier, a [...]
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Source: CNN Added On April 29, 2009 CNN’s Paula Hancocks in Ramallah, West Bank talks with two restaurant owners and a music teacher about President Obama. Click the following to access the story: Thoughts on Obama in West Bank
Apr 29 2009 | Posted in
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Joharah Baker I can’t believe it almost slipped my mind. Walking up to Jaffa Gate with my kids the other day, I noticed an unusual buzz of activity where east meets west, just outside the large gate that takes a person out of the walled city. There is an open-air Israeli mall called Mamilla (eerily [...]
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Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies The Israeli group Peace Now has published a report which says that the previous Israeli government under the leadership of Ehud Olmert, built and planned to build 9000 homes for Jewish settlers in Jerusalem and the West Bank. The report, published on Monday, summarizes the conduct of Olmert during his three years in office. It was [...]
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The Fourth Bil’in International Conference on Non-Violent Resistance, in honor of Basem Abu Rahme April 22-24, 2009 As we conclude our conference today, we remember our friend and fellow in struggle, Bassem Abu Rahma, who was killed by the Israeli army last Friday during the weekly peaceful demonstration. Our hearts and prayers go out to [...]
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Stephen Lendman The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights is a Gaza-based Palestinian NGO mandated “to promote, protect and prevent violations of human rights in general, and economic, social and cultural rights in particular, to provide effective aid to those victims of such violations, and to enhance the quality of life of the community in [...]
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Palestine Monitor 27 April 2009 One of the main barriers to peace between the Israelis and Palestinians is the lack of interaction between the two groups on a ‘people-to-people’ basis. In addition to that, nationalistic leaders on both sides tend to exploit the misconceptions that each side has of the other in order to polarize [...]
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Palestine Monitor 27 April 2009 This is just a small story. No one gets shot. There is no violence unless you consider the silent grinding down of an entire population violent. It is about my trip to Aroup Refugee Camp just north of Hebron. I take the local service bus. We go the inside route; [...]
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