Archive for: July, 2010

Home Demolitions, Dispossessions and Residency Rights Revoked

Stephen Lendman

Stephen Lendman, July 31 2010 Daily, Israeli oppression continues – demolishing homes, dispossessing occupants, and revoking residency rights, three of its many crimes under international law, Israel spurning it with impunity. On July 22, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) reported mass Jordan Valley Al Farisyie village demolitions, displacing 107 people, including 52 children. [...]

Israel bombs central Gaza City: seventeen injured

An injured man in carried to an ambulance - Photo: TILDE DE WANDEL

Israel bombs central Gaza City; seventeen injured Gaza City, Gaza Strip 31 July 2010 At around 11:30pm last night (Friday 30 July 2010), ‘The Arafat Compound’ Police College in central Gaza City was bombed by Israeli F-16s, in the area of ‘Al Montada’ injuring seventeen people, three of them seriously. Three children were also among [...]

Israeli Media Allow Army To Whitewash Another Murder

Barkan industrial area

Palestine Monitor, 31 July 2010 Another Palestinian life was ended by Israeli gunfire last week. Again it was dismissed by military spokesmen as a case of mistaken identity, again it was presented in the Israeli press as a successful security operation. Written and photographed by Aaron Dearborn. Bilal Abu Libdeh was shot outside the Barkan [...]

Israel Classifies its Past as Top Secret

The subject catalogue ("Schlagwortkatalog") of the University Library of Graz. The card shown refers to a text by Hans Schleimer who made up the rules for this catalogue. (Photo: Wikimedia Dr. Marcus Gossler)

Lawrence Davidson, July 31 2010 Israel is a land built on myths. It is, of course, not unique in this. Indeed in this way Israel is very much like its patron, the United States. In order to build and maintain a mythical status a nation must create a picture of itself from its very inception [...]

The Silence of The Bedouins

The Silence of The Bedouins

Palestine Monitor, 30 July 2010 The road to al-Hadidiya village in the northeastern West Bank district of Tubas is dotted with boulders etched with a warning in Hebrew, Arabic and English: “Danger — Open Fire Area”. The boulders arrived about six months ago, and are positioned at the entrance to Palestinian villages, indicating that chunks [...]

Wanted again, ethnic cleansing and more‏

Mazin Qumsiyeh

Mazin Qumsiyeh, 30 July 2010 After attending a workshop on developing curricula for nonviolence/popular resistance, I returned with a harrowing 12+ hour experience at the crossing from Jordan to the occupied Palestinian territories.  This included being served with an order/warrant for an appearance at the apartheid colonial ‘security’ offices in ten days and rifling through [...]

Viva Palestina 5 working closely with Gaza officials to bring vital medical aid on next convoy

Viva Palestina, 30 July 2010 Despite the recent claims by Israel that they have “eased” the siege on Gaza , vital medical supplies and equipment are still prohibited from entering the besieged region. In June, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that Israel blocked the delivery of essential medical equipment, including a CT scanner, defibrillators [...]

The Veritas Handbook

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PRESS RELEASE: The Veritas Handbook- Download Now! Dear World, July is historically an important month in the struggle for Palestinian human rights. It was in July when the British Empire officially established its control over Palestine through the League of Nations Mandate System (July 24th 1922); it was in July when the first major Zionist [...]

Open Letter to Mahmoud Abbas

President Barack Obama meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the Oval Office Thursday, May 28, 2009. The man sitting between them is an interpreter. ( This official White House photograph is being made available for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way or used in materials, advertisements, products, or promotions that in any way suggest approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Various Undersigned (29 July 2010) The following open letter to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, whose elected mandate expired in July 2009 and who has remained in power under controversial emergency laws, was issued on 22 July 2010: We are Palestinians of diverse perspectives and affiliations — scholars, intellectuals, artists, activists, trade unionists, human rights [...]

Team Palestine – Rosetta@home

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Rosetta@home needs your help to determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running the Rosetta program on your computer while you don’t need it you will help us speed up and extend our research in ways we couldn’t possibly attempt without [...]

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