West Bank poor pay heavy price: video

When the Police Have an Illegal Headquarters

by David Cronin BRUSSELS, Jun 30, 2010 (IPS) – Talks aimed at reaching an intelligence-sharing agreement between the European Union and Israel have skirted around the location of Israel’s national police headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem. In 2005, the EU decided that Europol, its law enforcement office, should negotiate a formal cooperation agreement with Israel. [...]

Settlers Launch Campaign against Bibi, Warn of another Freeze Commitment

Al Manar 30/06/2010 Israeli settlement leaders on Tuesday launched an “aggressive and direct” campaign on the eve of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington, lest he “again betrays his voters,” they said.   They noted that the struggle till now has been directed at Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and they have avoided attacking [...]

Israeli occupation soldier admits shooting Joulani at point-blank

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– In a new development, an Israeli occupation soldier from the border guards, who killed Jerusalemite citizen Ziad Joulani on June 11 in the Wadi Al-Joz neighbourhood in Jerusalem, admitted that he shot Jilani at point-blank range, according to Haaretz newspaper. He also claimed he believed Joulani was a terrorist and killed him [...]

Jerusalem Politicians Face Expulsion

By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth, source   Israeli human-rights groups and Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, have condemned a decision by Israel to expel four Palestinian politicians from East Jerusalem by the end of this week.   The Israeli government revoked their residency rights in Jerusalem a few weeks ago, after claiming [...]

McChrystal´s Dismissal Shows US military Failure in Afghanistan

by Yusuf Fernandez, Al Manar Few people got surprised when they knew that General Stanley McChrystal had been dismissed by the US Administration. The alleged reason was remarks by McChrystal concerning President Obama and other civilian officials in an interview that was published in the magazine Rolling Stone, but there is another more powerful reasons [...]

From the USS Liberty to the Mavi Marmara

By Rifat Audeh, source In an outstanding article entitled ‘How Israeli propaganda shaped U.S. media coverage of the flotilla attack’, Glenn Greenwald makes the argument that is self-evident in the title. As someone who was on the Mavi Marmara ship and interviewed frequently after the Israeli crime, I can attest to the accuracy of his findings, [...]

Israeli Ministers Reject Bill to Prevent Discrimination in State Schools

Al Manar 28/06/2010 The Israeli Ministerial Committee on Legislation on Sunday rejected a bill aimed at preventing discrimination against students enrolled in the official state education system.   In their bill, MK Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz) and Kadima Mks Shlomo Molla and Shai Hermesh, proposed that the education minister be obligated to enforce within a specific [...]

Israeli Government Releases Blueprint For East Jerusalem ‘Master Plan’ Including Expulsion Of Arabs

by Saed Bannoura, June 28, 2010 – IMEMC Expanding on the Jerusalem master plans of 2006 and 2008, the Jerusalem Planning Committee of the Israeli Ministry of the Interior has released the text of a new ‘master plan’ which they are scheduled to approve in the coming weeks. The plan includes the large-scale expulsion of [...]

HRW Report Says Britain, France, Germany Use Foreign Torture Intel

Al Manar 29/06/2010 Britain, France and Germany use foreign intelligence obtained through torture in the fight against terrorism, a new report from Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. The use by three heavyweight European powers of information from secret services in countries that routinely rely on torture was damaging the reputation of the entire European Union, [...]

Erdogan: “Israel” Must Apologize for Gaza Blockade

Al Manar 29/06/2010 Israel must apologize for its blockade of the Gaza Strip, as well as compensate the people of Gaza, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview to American television Monday, adding that such an apology would be a condition to continued Turkish mediation in any future peace talks between Israel [...]

Power cuts threaten health disaster in Gaza’s health sector

MEMO, June 28, 2010 The Ministry of Health in Gaza is warning of an impending disaster, one that is inevitable as a result of the increasing number of power outages to affect the area. The siege on the Gaza Strip has resulted in the restriction of access to fuel for the power plants in Gaza [...]

The roots of Israeli exceptionalism

By Mohamed El-Moctar El-Shinqiti, June 27, 2010, Al Jazeera An American academic once told me: “Many people in the Islamic world think America does not believe in human rights, but they are wrong; America believes in human rights indeed, the problem is the American definition of human.” In other words: the American definition of ‘human’ [...]

20,000 Gazans in West Bank threatened with deportation

NAZARETH, (PIC)– More than 20,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip are living in a state of anxiety fearing the Israeli occupation authority might deport them any time to the Gaza Strip. A press report published on Sunday by the English-language Israeli daily Jerusalem Post said that those citizens’ life turned to hell after the Israeli [...]

Building Settlements at Sheikh Jarrah Begins

Al Manar 28/06/2010 Building settlements in the occupied east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah began Sunday, just a few days before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was scheduled to meet with the US president.   The controversial construction plans, set at the site of the Shepherd Hotel, surfaced on the eve of Netanyahu’s previous meeting [...]