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Turkey is Centre of the World

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:14:40 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Despite the fragile situation, if Turkey were to organise autonomy for Kurds in its own borders, northern Iraq, Syria and Iran it would be a heroic act of enormous historical import.

Clip Source: www.atimes.com

Turkey's political stability is no longer just a national issue of 80 million Turks. It is a vital issue today for the international community. And Turkey's role in the Israel-Syria peace talks is only the tip of the iceberg. In the highly volatile Middle East situation, Turkey also facilitated contacts between US National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki. (The two adversaries visited Ankara recently.) Furthermore, Turkey has waded into the Iraq project.

Besides, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is poised to spread to the northern shores of the Black Sea. The new cold war has arrived in Turkey.

Turkish foreign policy is cruising at an optimal level with its prestige as a regional power running high as it mediates peace in its neighborhood and commands influence. Turkey has returned to the Middle East region after an absence of almost nine decades.

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Israeli Terrorists on Rampage

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:28:48 GMT

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Clip Source: www.haaretz.com

A settler attacked an Israel Defense Forces soldier at the West Bank outpost of Havat Gilad Thursday afternoon, holding a knife to the soldier's throat and forcibly removing his helmet from his head. The attacker then fled the scene.

The incident occurred during a confrontation between settlers and Israeli soldiers in the area, west of Nablus.

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Other settlers at Havat Gilad set Palestinian olive groves on fire, sparking several field fires.

Earlier Thursday, Palestinian security officials said that more than 20 settlers had attacked another Palestinian village in the West Bank, Burin, smashing cars and windows and cutting electricity wires.

When police and soldiers intervened to restore order, a settler snatched a soldier's gun and fired in the air before being disarmed and arrested,

The closest settlement to Burin is Yitzhar, where a settler was arrested this month for allegedly trying to launch a homemade rocket at Burin.

Tags: israelis in palestine

'Worse than apartheid'

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:01:15 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: Nablus is closed off by six checkpoints. Until 2005, one of them was open. "The checkpoints are supposedly for security purposes, but anyone who wants to perpetrate an attack can pay NIS 10 for a taxi and travel by bypass roads, or walk through the hills.

The real purpose is to make life hard for the inhabitants. The civilian population suffers," says Said Abu Hijla, a lecturer at Al-Najah University in the city.

In the bus I get acquainted with my two neighbours: Andrew Feinstein, a son of Holocaust survivors who is married to a Muslim woman from Bangladesh and served six years as an MP for the ANC; and Nathan Gefen, who has a male Muslim partner and was a member of the right-wing Betar movement in his youth. Gefen is active on the Committee against AIDS in his AIDS-ravaged country.

Clip Source: www.haaretz.com

'Worse than apartheid'

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Clip Source: www.independent.co.uk

Clip Source: www.haaretz.com

This week, 21 human rights activists from South Africa visited Israel. Among them were members of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress; at least one of them took part in the armed struggle and at least two were jailed

There were two South African Supreme Court judges, a former deputy minister, members of Parliament, attorneys, writers and journalists

Blacks and whites, about half of them Jews who today are in conflict with attitudes of the conservative Jewish community in their country

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Clip Source: www.haaretz.com

there is no comparison: for them the Israeli occupation regime is worse than anything they knew under apartheid

in the occupied areas, where hardly any official guests go - places that are also shunned by most Israelis

Nablus, the most imprisoned city in the West Bank

Nablus is closed off by six checkpoints

Jerusalem to Nablus via Highway 60, observing the imprisoned villages that have no access to the main road, and seeing the "roads for the natives," which pass under the main road

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Tags: israel, apartheid

Palestine/Israel: undisputed Facts

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:35:14 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Facts speak for themselves.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

ISRAEL FACTS

Population: 6.9 million (UN, 2007)

Area: Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics cites 22,072 sq km (8,522 sq miles), including Jerusalem and Golan

Life expectancy: 79 years (men), 83 years (women) (UN)

GNI per capita: US $18,620 (World Bank, 2006)

PALESTINIAN FACTS

Population: 4 million (UN, 2007)

Area: Palestinian Ministry of Information cites 5,970 sq km (2,305 sq miles) for West Bank territories and 365 sq km (141 sq miles) for Gaza

Life expectancy: 72 years (men), 75 years (women) (UN)

GNI per capita: US $1,120 (World Bank, 2006)

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Music and Peace: Palestine and Israel

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:07:14 GMT

clipped by: abailart

Clip Source: explorersfoundation.org

In the early 1990s, a chance meeting between Mr. Barenboim and the late Palestinian-born writer and Columbia University professor Edward Said in a London hotel lobby led to an intensive friendship that has had both political and musical repercussions. These two men, who should have been poles apart politically, discovered in that first meeting, which lasted for hours, that they had similar visions of Israeli/Palestinian possible future cooperation. They decided to continue their dialogue and to collaborate on musical events to further their shared vision of peaceful co-existence in the Middle East. This led to Mr. Barenboim's first concert on the West Bank, a piano recital at the Palestinian Birzeit University in February 1999, and to a workshop for young musicians from the Middle East that took place in Weimar, Germany, in August 1999.

Said passed away in 2003 but his partnership with Daniel Barenboim lives on through

projects targeted at young Arabs and Israelis.

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Israel Will Attack Iran with US Backing

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:21:30 GMT

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Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Israel "will attack" Iran if it continues to develop nuclear weapons, one of prime minister Ehud Olmert's deputies warned yesterday. Shaul Mofaz, a former defence minister and a contender to replace the scandal-battered Olmert, said military action would be "unavoidable" if Tehran proved able to acquire the technology to manufacture atomic bombs.

Mofaz is Israel's transport minister, but he is also a former chief of staff, privy to secret defence planning as a member of the security cabinet, and leads regular strategic talks with the US. He implied that any attack on Iran would be coordinated with Washington. "If Iran continues with its programme for developing nuclear weapons, we will attack it," he told the Hebrew daily Yediot Aharonot. "The UN sanctions are ineffective."

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Israel's Nuclear War on Iran

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:19:30 GMT

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Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Oil prices leaped to another record high yesterday as Israel warned Iran about its nuclear sites and the dollar slumped on news of the biggest jump in US unemployment for 22 years.

Already jittery oil markets were sent into spasm by remarks from Israel's transport minister that an attack on Iranian nuclear sites looked "unavoidable". Any attack on the country would threaten supplies from the whole region.

Shares dived after the US unemployment rate unexpectedly jumped to 5.5%, intensifying fears that the world's biggest economy is sliding into recession.

Tags: oil, recession, israel

Israel has at least 150 Nukes: Carter

Mon, 26 May 2008 19:05:55 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Ex-US President Jimmy Carter has said Israel has at least 150 atomic weapons in its arsenal.

The Israelis have never confirmed they have nuclear weapons, but this has been widely assumed since a scientist leaked details in the 1980s.

Mr Carter made his comments on Israel's weapons at a press conference at the annual literary Hay Festival in Wales.

He also described Israeli treatment of Palestinians as "one of the greatest human rights crimes on earth".

During the press briefing, Mr Carter expressed his support for Israel as a country, but criticised its domestic and foreign policy.

"One of the greatest human rights crimes on earth is the starvation and imprisonment of 1.6m Palestinians," he said.

The former US president cited statistics which he said showed the nutritional intake of some Palestinian children to be below that of children in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as describing the European position on Israel could be best described as "supine"

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Why Israel fits in with the West

Sat, 24 May 2008 05:51:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "It is possible that war is the only way out of the situation created by Zionism. I leave it to others to find cause for rejoicing in this. But if there is any chance of some day seeing a peaceful solution, it will not be achieved by telling the Arabs that it is their duty to applaud their conquerors because they are Europeans or are in the process of becoming Europeanized, because they are 'advanced,' because they are revolutionary or (almost) socialist and, even less, simply because they are Jews! The most that can be asked of the Arabs is that they resign themselves to a disagreeable situation, and that in resigning themselves they make the best of their resignation. It is not easy to get a conquered person to resign himself to defeat, and it is not made any easier by loudly proclaiming how right it was that he was soundly beaten. It is generally wiser to offer him compensation. And those who have not suffered from the fight can (and, I believe, even must) recommend forgiveness ...

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"Israel, A Colonial-Settler State?" is the question posed by the title of Prof. Maxime Rodinson’s 1973 book, which answers this crucial question in the affirmative.

Rodinson became well known in France when he expressed a certain reticence about Israel, despite himself being Jewish. He had always been suspicious of Zionism and considered those who expressed enthusiasm for Israel were indulging in a belated form of colonialism.

The Jews attracted by Zionism emigrated to Palestine, and then they dominated it. They occupied it in deed and then adopted legislation to justify this occupation by law ... To be aware of the colonial character of the State of Israel is to begin to make clear why the pressure of the events does so much to thrust Israel into the camp of the Western powers, and why any other orientation would require heroic efforts on the part of progressive elements in Israel ... The Zionist leaders are responsible [for] the colonization of a foreign land

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60 years (bitterlemons.org - Palestinian-Israeli Crossfire)

Mon, 19 May 2008 21:18:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: [Note: The links seem to work from the source page only.]

This project has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The contents of this project are the sole responsibility of bitterlemons.org [...].

Clip Source: www.bitterlemons.org

60 years
. A historic compromise under threat by Ghassan Khatib The two peoples and the conflict are at a crossroads.
	. A just cause by Yossi Alpher "But doesn't the Nakba still weigh heavily on your celebrations?" my Palestinian friend pressed me.
. Only conflict looms by Abdel Jawad Saleh The UN was no Solomon.
	. What the Jews achieved and what the Arabs achieved by Yisrael Harel Throughout most of the Arab world, and particularly the Palestinian camp, things are regressing.

Tags: israel, palestine, dialogue

Dossier: Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue

Mon, 19 May 2008 21:06:04 GMT

clipped by: Johanna_G
clipper's remarks: Deutsche Fassung: Israelisch-palästinensischer Dialog

Clip Source: www.qantara.de

Beyond the violence in the Middle East conflict, there are many individuals and initiatives working towards lasting peace in the region.

Israeli-Palestinian Student Newspaper

Meeting at a Mutual Point in the Middle

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A New Initiative for Palestinian-Israeli Dialogue

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Portrait: Uri Avnery

"I Don't Believe in Hopeless Situations"

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Israeli Magazine on Palestinian Trauma

The Nakba in Hebrew

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"Artists without Walls"

The Wall Jumpers

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Palestinian-Israeli Peace Initiatives

Many Davids versus One Goliath

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Joint Palestinian and Israeli Curriculum Project

Learning Each Other's Historical Narrative

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Documentary "Bridge over the Wadi"

Jewish and Arab Children Attending the Same School

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Sari Nusseibeh: A Palestinian Looks Back

The Life of "Others"

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Interview with Assaf Gavron

"You Have to be Interested in the Other Side"

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Daniel Barenboim

Musical Diplomacy in the Middle East

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Yasmin Levy

"In My Songs There Is No War"

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Tags: israel, palästina, palestine, peace initiatives, dialogue

Something to Read over Breakfast

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:34:57 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: if the cereal packets get boring.

Clip Source: www.independent.co.uk

Israeli fire hit a house in the Gaza Strip today while a family was eating breakfast inside, killing four Palestinian children and another civilian, residents said.

Residents said an Israeli projectile smashed through the ceiling of a one-storey house where a family was having breakfast, killing four children - siblings whose ages ranged from 1-1/2 to 5 years old - and an unidentified person.

Tags: israel, gaza, indiscriminate israeli bombings

Did an Ancient Language of Universal Symbols Exist?

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:24:43 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

Over the last several years, similar petroglyphs have been identified on as many as five continents. They all date from roughly the same time-period. In the late 20th century, archaeologists discovered a collection of symbols carved in stone as petroglyphs in the Negev desert of Israel that appeared to be writing. Dating of these symbols showed that they were made over an extended period time, beginning around 1700 BC.

This strange collection of symbols was first examined by Dr. James Harris, a petroglyph expert and archaeologist from Brigham Young University. He identified the alphabet as being a proto-Canaanite system, which successfully translated by using old-Hebrew or Thalmudic phonetic sounds.

Earlier, William McGlone, an amateur archaeologist and retired space engineer, discovered the same collection of symbols carved in heavily patinated stones surrounding the Southeast town of La Junta, Colorado

the patina corresponded to the same era as the writing found in Harkarkom in Israel.

Tags: petroglyphs, archaeology, language, symbols

Turning Israeli Soldiers into Animals: by Israeli Soldiers

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:01:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A force for justice

Breaking the Silence was formed four years ago by a group of ex-soldiers, most of whom had served in Israel Defence Forces combat units in Hebron. Many of the soldiers do reserve duty in the military each year. It has collected some 500 testimonies from former soldiers who served in the West Bank and Gaza. Its first public exposure was with an exhibition of photographs by soldiers serving in Hebron and the organisation also runs regular tours of Hebron for Israeli students and diplomats. It receives funding from groups as diverse as the Jewish philanthropic Moriah Fund, the New Israel Fund, the British embassy in Tel Aviv and the EU.

Clip Source: www.independent.co.uk

In shocking testimonies that reveal abductions, beatings and torture, Israeli soldiers confess the horror they have visited on Hebron

In a confessional interview with the Israeli Channel Two investigative programme Uvda, Gigi, who had previously been in many ways a model soldier, talked of "losing the human condition" in Hebron. Asked what he meant, he replied: "To lose the human condition is to become an animal."

In its introduction to the testimonies, Breaking the Silence says: "The soldiers' determination to fulfil their mission yields tragic results: the proper-normative becomes despicable, the inconceivable becomes routine ... [The] testimonies are to illustrate the manner in which they are swept into the brutal reality reigning on the ground, a reality whereby the lives of many thousands of Palestinian families are at the questionable mercy of youths. Hebron turns a focused, flagrant lens at the reality to which Israel's young representatives are constantly sent."

Tags: male violence, israeli military

Jews against Zionism

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:56 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: I have clipped this not to promote a point of view but to offer those who care to know the many strands of perspectives on Israel an opportunity to go and look at some sites that explain that by no means all Jews support the state of Israel or its Zionist ideology.

Clip Source: www.nkusa.org

March 21, 2008:

Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews in London and New York burn the Zionist flag on Purim.

March 15, 2008 London, England:

Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews in London rallied and demonstrated in protest of the ongoing siege of Gaza

March 18, 2008, New York City

Orthodox Jews join other organizations in protest against the recent horrific atrocities in GAZA and to protest the "Friends of the Israeli Defense Force" dinner.

January 26, 2008, London, Washington, New York:

Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews in London, New York and Washington DC demonstrated in protest of the atrocities in Gaza.....

November 27, 2007, Annapolis, MD:

Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews demonstrated outside the US Naval Academy in Annapolis during the Mid-East Peace Talks Conference

November 2007, Palestine:

Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews joined Palestinian protestors demonstrating against the Zionist demolition of homes.

Clip Source: www.jewsnotzionists.org

Jewish anti-Zionism is not restricted exclusively to the well know Jewish anti-Zionist movements such as Satma

Tags: israel, jewish anti-zionism