From MiddleEastTimor.org.uk:
Rabbi Meir Hirsh, Jerusalem – Arrest of Shaykh Raed Salah in London
There are very few people in Jerusalem who have not heard of or do not know Shaykh Raed Salah and I am no exception. He actively been at the forefront of every Arab-Israeli issue face to face with the Israeli authorities. I have personallyknown him [...]
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Source: The Palestinian Information Center
By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine
A prominent rabbi from a settlement in the West Bank has informed Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that there can be no real peace in occupied Palestine or the wider Middle East without the involvement of Hamas, the Islamic Palestinian liberation movement.
The Rabbi, [...]
Bearing copies of the Koran, a Hanukka song translated into Arabic, and a lot of good will, a colorful contingent of moderate rabbis, poets and modern Orthodox youths and professors arrived Sunday at the entrance to Yasuf, a village near Nablus, to protest an arson attack there against a mosque.
Gaza under Israel’s inhuman, barbaric and illegal siege
By Jordan Flaherty and Lily Keber
The Electronic Intifada
26 August 2009
Gaza was devastated by a 22-day Israeli military offensive. Rebuilding has barely begun. This is on top of a near-total blockade that Israel imposed in 2007 that has kept most goods and supplies out of the Strip.
The range of [...]
CIA working with Palestinian security agents
12.17.2009 | The Guardian
Palestinian security agents who have been detaining and allegedly torturing supporters of the Islamist organisation Hamas in the West Bank have been working closely with the CIA, the Guardian has learned.Less than a year after Barack Obama signed an executive order that prohibited torture and provided for [...]
03.30.2009 | The Palestine Center
While international law tolerates military occupation, it does not approve it, specifically one that has continued for over 40 years as in the case of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory. Furthermore, during that time, Israel has introduced two other elements—colonialism and apartheid. Although there are many similarities between apartheid as it [...]
“BISHOP DESMOND TUTU, the South African Nobel Prize winner, described how he saw on his visit to Israel “much like what happened to us black people in South Africa. I have seen the humiliation of the Palestinians at checkpoints and roadblocks, suffering like us when young white police officers prevented us from moving about” (1)….”
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