Thousands of police are in the village of el-Araqib right now – beginning a mass evacuation, demolition, and erasure of this historical Bedouin village. if you have access to the media, please send them to this village as soon as possible! the village of el-Araqib is between Rahat and Beer Sheva, and in a location that the Goldberg commission deemed outside of the areas allowed for the Negev Arabs… an area designated only for Jews… the JNF (Jewish National Fund) is planting a forest on this village lands – to make sure that the Bedouin cannot live on their village lands or use them for agriculture. the villagers turned to the israeli courts, as the JNF were planting this forest at the bequest of the Israeli government, but against Israeli law… the people of el-Araqib won the court battle… but this morning it seems that the Government of Israel has started a war — of the Government against its own citizens. for more information: Dr. Yeela Raanan, Regional Council for the Unrecognized Villages (RCUV).
The new plan updates older ones, going back to the first, what Israeli historian Ilan Pappe documented in his 2006 book, “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine,” on David Ben-Gurion’s Plan D (Dalet in Hebrew), his final master plan following Plans A, B and C, what Palestinians call the Nakba, the catastrophe, commemorated annually to never forget. By bombarding and besieging villages and population centers, destroying communities, and expelling or killing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, it planned an exclusive Jewish state, excluding Arabs by any means, including mass-murder, dispossession, and persecution, ongoing to this day, what Palestinians heroically resist.
At 1:30 in the morning on July 19th armed Israeli soldiers drove into our village, Bil’in, under the cover of the pitch black night, and raided the house of my friend and well known activist Wajeeh Burnat, who was featured in the documentary Bil’in Habibti. This time, the raid was conducted to take Ahmad, his 17 year-old son. It is not often that we ask for such help, but we turn to you today asking for a donation, large or small, to help in securing his release. http://palsolidarity.org/2010/07/13264/ Report: Christian Peacemaker Team In Hebron
Hebron – PNN – Finding the way to the Christian Peacemaker Team (or CPT for short) office was not easy. We eventually found our way down Chicken street, so called for the chicken market which used to flourish just a couple of years ago. Now, every shop is closed down. At the end of the street is a 6 foot high stretch of barbed wire, with around 8 feet of concrete behind it. Our guide, a local named Salaam, shows us a doorway, right next to the wire, where a sign clearly says ‘Doctor’s surgery’. However, with further inspection, there is a doorbell with CPT written above it, next to the rather misleading sign. After around 5 minutes of waiting, a call comes down to, “come on up.” http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8581 Turkey working to prevent Lebanese sail to Gaza
Hebron – Ma’an – Israeli forces raided a cemetery during a woman’s funeral processionnorth of the West Bank city of Hebron on Sunday. Soldiers chased the mourners into the cemetery in Beit Ummar and fired tear-gas canisters at them, Palestine Solidarity Project spokesman Muhammad Ayyad Awad said. An Israeli army spokeswoman said the soldiers fired in response to rocks which were thrown at them from the funeral procession. http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=302380
At 11:30 yesterday, 26th July 2010, settlers from the Berakha Shomronim settlement began shooting at Palestinians in the village of Burin and setting fire to crops on their land. Trouble flared when Israeli authorities ordered the demolition of a structure in an illegal settler outpost because of the freeze on settlement construction. Israeli police failed to contain the settler riot which followed and closed Huwara checkpoint, near Nablus, in response. http://palsolidarity.org/2010/07/13270/ Settlers launch new attack
Nablus – Ma’an – On Monday evening, settlers launched their second attack of the day on a northern West Bank village, setting fire to land and olive trees and throwing rocks., Ambulances and firefighters rushed to Burin village to control the flames apparently started by residents of the illegal Yizhar settlement, Palestinian Authority settlement affairs officer Ghassan Doughlas said. http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=302706 No words to console Gaza child after mother is killed by Israeli shelling
Around 8:45pm on 13 July, 2010, a few of the women of the Abu Said family in the northern Gaza Strip were enjoying the cool of the evening in the courtyard in front of their house. They heard a muffled shooting sound, followed soon after by another, and then by a loud buzzing noise, as if a swarm of insects was approaching at full speed. Vittorio Arrigoni reports from the occupied Gaza Strip. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11419.shtml
Revolving Door For Israeli Criminals Police release rabbi arrested for inciting to kill non-Jews
Date: 26 Jul 2010, YANOUN, West Bank, A few days ago, I was handing out bottles of water within a few miles of Israel/Palestine’s only major river, the Jordan., The village of Al Fasayel lies in a desert landscape, a contrast to nearby Israeli settlements, which have access to almost unlimited water. Al Fasayel itself has not had water on tap for over seven weeks. http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-87R3CP?OpenDocument Gaza kids struggle to leave their world of silence
GAZA, July 26 (Xinhua) — The four-year-old Gaza boy Noor stuttered when he tried to utter the word “baba”. A deaf specialist, sitting next to him, was teaching him to say the easy word, hoping to help the boy leave the world of silence. Noor and another eight hearing-impaired children were in one room with their specialist mentor who produced several musical sounds and slowly moved her tongue and lips to teach them the correct pronunciation of the early childhood expressions. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-07/27/c_13416138.htm Life on hold as construction material restricted into Gaza
The Christian Science Monitor – Israel appears to have improved its cooperation with the United Nations over its controversial Gaza policy after coming under pressure from activists seeking to break Israel’s sea blockade of the Hamas-controlled territory. The latest fleet of activist ships is preparing to set sail from Lebanon. http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100726/wl_csm/316152 U.S. warns Abbas: Direct talks or lose backing for state
Bethlehem – Ma’an – President Mahmoud Abbas will request an extension to US-mediated indirect talks with Israel from the Arab Peace Initiative Committee when in Cairo on Thursday, a PLO official said Monday. Executive Committee member Hannah Amireh told Ma’an radio that Abbas would ask for talks to continue until 8 September, one month over the 4-month deadline sanctioned by the Arab League. http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=302652 Fatah lawmakers to assess rumored cabinet shuffle
Ramallah – Ma’an – Palestinian lawmakers affiliated to Fatah are scheduled to hold a meeting Tuesday in Ramallah in the central West Bank to discuss the expected PA government’s reshuffle and other developments. Azzam Al-Ahmad, speaker of the Fatah bloc in the Palestinian Legislative Council, will head the meeting which all Fatah lawmakers based in the West Bank are expected to attend. http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=302901 Report: Mitchell tells Abbas Bibi here to stay
DAMASCUS, (PIC)– Khaled Mishaal, the head of Hamas’s political bureau, has explained Wednesday that his Movement follows firm and well-studied strategy in dealing with the Israeli occupation, the internal Palestinian social fabric, and the international community. In an interview with the Jordanian Al-Sabeel newspaper, Mishaal said that his Movement doesn’t reject negotiations with the enemy as an option but he explained that the Israeli occupation is an extraordinary condition being a foreign body implanted in Palestinian uprooting millions of Palestinian people out of their homes at gunpoint. Such a situation made negotiation with the Israeli occupation as the only option something unacceptable because it was proven that negotiations without having force to back your stand is a waste of time, he elaborated. http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2010/07/
mishaal-explains-hamass-strategy-in-dealing-with-the-israeli-occupation/ Israeli, Jordan leaders discuss Palestinian talks (Reuters)
Gush Shalom – As if it was not enough that Israeli youths are conscripted for military service often spent in daily oppression of the Palestinians, from now on also after discharge they will be directed towards an `academic` strengthening of the occupation, settlement and dispossession of Palestinians. http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=41336 Press freedoms fall victim to Fatah, Hamas disunity
The split between the the Hamas-run Gaza wing and the Fatah-run West Bank wing of the Palestinian Authority (PA) has overshadowed every aspect of public life, including, many rights groups have documented, infringements on press freedoms and the work of journalists. Rami Almeghari reports from Gaza for The Electronic Intifada. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11420.shtml Foreign investors took time off from Israel in 2009
Obama is unable to offer Abbas an independent Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, because that is not what Netanyahu has in mind. Indeed, recent reports suggest that during his meeting last weekend with Egypt’s President, Hosni Mubarak, the Israeli prime minister presented a proposed map of a Palestinian State that fell well short of the Arab League’s proposal for peace. Nor is Netanyahu under pressure from the US to offer more. In fact, Netanyahu believes that he can bend Washington to his will, as he so memorably explained to a family of Israeli settlers in a recently surfaced video clip from 2001: “I know what America is. America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction.” http://tonykaron.com/2010/07/26/abu-mazen-and-obamas-peace-pantomime/ Israel’s Secret Police Exposed, Jonathan Cook – Nazareth
The arrest by Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet, of an Israeli Jew accused of killing at least four Palestinians has thrown a rare light on the secret police, including attempts by one of its agents to enlist the accused to assassinate a Palestinian spiritual leader. Chaim Pearlman, who was arrested a fortnight ago, has been charged with murdering four Palestinians in Jerusalem and injuring at least seven others in a series of knife attacks that began more than a decade ago. Police are still investigating whether he was involved in additional attacks. http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=16165 Joel Rubin: Swiftboating Sestak on Israel
TROY, New York — The Dogans were a quiet family little noticed by their neighbors here in upstate New York. Ahmet Dogan had come to the area from Turkey to study accounting at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was a serious student; the Dogans did little entertaining. But when their younger son, Furkan, was born in 1991, the family threw a party and a neighbor recalled a toast “to the first U.S. citizen in the family.” Furkan Dogan would live just two years in Troy, returning to Turkey with his family in 1993. But he was proud of his American passport and dreamt of coming back after completing medical school. Five Israeli bullets — at least two of them to the head — ended that dream on May 31. Dogan was 19. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/opinion/27iht-edcohen.html Caterpillar Caught in Web Of Middle East Politics
At first glance, the contention that a construction equipment company in Peoria, Ill., is implicated in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems strange. But earlier in July, the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States adopted a resolution that strongly criticized Caterpillar Inc., the manufacturer whose tractors, bulldozers and mining equipment help build and farm America, for its role in Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands. http://www.forward.com/articles/129547/
Iraq Monday: 28 Iraqis Killed, 74 Wounded
Despite extra precautions, belligerents detonated a car bomb in Karbala. A separate car bomb destroyed the al-Arabiya studios and a lawmaker’s home in Baghdad. At least 28 Iraqis were killed and 74 more were wounded in those two attacks. Curiously, no other attacks in Iraq were reported. Meanwhile, members of the Iraqiya party refuse to allow the political impasse preventing the formation of the next government to become “internationalized.”
AP – A lawmaker from Iraq’s largest Shiite bloc says a parliament session expected Tuesday will not be held as discussions faltered again over the formation of a new government.
In June 2004, I was invited for a dinner at a restaurant near an airport in the Gulf. I saw a group of bodyguards dressed in traditional Gulf attire entering the restaurant. Before I knew it, we were sitting next to a table whose guest of honor was Iyad Allawi, the newly appointed prime minister of Iraq, who was being hosted by the foreign minister of that Gulf country. I witnessed how warm their relationship seemed to be. They were exchanging laughs as though they were two old friends, catching up after a prolonged absence. http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=117489#ixzz0upJAt0bB Iraqi Shiite group promoted ‘virtue’ by the sword (AFP)
Fifteen kidnapped people released, 238 raids, 14,008 searches, 227 arrests (including 126 without warrants), 18 mortars found, 213 weapons found, eight explosive belts found, four terrorists killed, 167 IEDs dismantled, 18 sticky IEDs dismantled and one car bomb dismantled.” I was reading the achievements of an Iraqi army division in the four months leading up to June. I went on reading: “The enemy activities: 24 clashes, 46 IEDs, 38 sticky IEDs, nine car bombs, 10 bodies found, 15 assassinations, nine houses exploded, three grenade attacks, three explosive belts.”We were spending our day with a general, who narrated his achievements before Western and Iraqi reporters. “We were honored by the killing of the heads of terrorism Abu Omar al Baghdadi and Abu Ayoub al Masri,” he said. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/07/iraq-my-day-in-baghdad.html
Lebanon Lebanon arrests alleged German spy
Engineer accused of passing sensitive information to handlers. A German engineer was arrested in Lebanon Tuesday on suspicion of espionage in the country’s latest attempt to root out alleged Israeli spies, Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar reported. The suspected spy, reportedly named Manfred Peter Mog, was employed at a cheese factory in the Bekaa valley in eastern Lebanon, were he was in charge of machine maintenance. He was suspected of using transmitters to pass sensitive information to his handlers, according to the report. http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=182778 Natural gas could lead to new Lebanon-Israel war (AP)
BEIRUT, July 26 (Xinhua) — Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblat on Monday called for dialogue among political factions in order to defuse rising tensions. Jumblat told Al Anbaa newspaper that dialogue is the only way to preserve “calmness” in Lebanon. “For those who forget, let’s remember that we were talking to each other at the peak of political divisions and the period of sharp tensions,” said the Lebanese MP. “Why don’t we return to dialogue in order to prevent Lebanon from sliding again toward divisions and sectarian tension,” he added. Jumblat said that the capability to return to dialogue is possible if the factions showed the “political will.” http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-07/27/c_13416171.htm Saudi king to visit Lebanon amid tensions: govt official (AFP)
AFP – Saudi King Abdullah will visit Lebanon on Friday and will urge rival parties to exercise restraint amid tensions over the possible implication of Hezbollah in the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri, a government official said on Monday. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100726/wl_mideast_afp/lebanonsyriasaudidiplomacy
TEHRAN, July 27 (Xinhua) — A senior Iranian lawmaker said Tuesday that the West should first discard the carrot and stick policy prior to any dialogue on Iran’s nuclear program, local media reported. “The European Union (EU)’s call for the continuation of nuclear talks with Tehran is in direct contradiction to its recently approved package of anti-Iran sanctions,” head of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iran’s Majlis (Parliament) Alaeddin Boroujerdi was quoted as saying by Mehr news agency. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-07/27/c_13417800.htm Iran: U.S. will likely attack 2 Mideast countries within 3 months
The tens of thousands of secret US military documents passed to the Wikileaks website paint a far grimmer picture of the war in Afghanistan than our political leaders have ever conveyed. They show that Western forces are often scandalously careless of civilian life in that country. Some 140 incidents are recorded in which Afghan civilians were killed. They died in misdirected airstrikes, shooting sprees by panicking troops, or raids by Special Forces. And it not only the US military which has been responsible for such carnage. Polish, French, German and British troops are also recorded as killing civilians. While it is impossible to verify all that is contained in these documents, it is clear enough that appalling events have gone unreported by Western forces. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/
leading-article-a-light-shone-on-the-dark-side-of-this-war-2036231.html The Wikileaks ‘source’: Former army analyst facing 52 years in prison
US officials believe that the intelligence agency of ally Pakistan has been secretly supporting the Taliban in Afghanistan, leaked records say. Wikileaks, the online whistleblower organisation, published more than 90,000 secret US military documents on Sunday, revealing alleged support for the Taliban in their conflict with US-led Nato troops. The unverified files say that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, the country’s spy service, has been holding strategy sessions with Taliban leaders to aid them. Al Jazeera interviewed to the man mentioned in that report – retired Lieutenant General Hamid Gul, the former head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence who accused of being actively involved in supporting the Afghan Taliban. He denies the allegations against the ISI and says the sources of the leaks have ulterior political motives. [July 26, 2010] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2OvMhxkQZo&feature=youtube_gdata Digesting the Wikileaks document dump, Stephen M. Walt by Stephen M. Walt
I’m just starting to digest the Wikileaks material on Afghanistan, but suffice it to say that it confirms all my misgivings about our current commitment there. As I’ve said since I started blogging, the stakes in Afghanistan are not worth the current level of cost and effort, and the prerequisites for a meaningful “victory” are lacking. Obama made a basic error when he escalated the war effort (not once but twice), and our best hope now is to shift from a largely military strategy towards one that reduces our military footprint, emphasizes power-sharing, political reconciliation, and broader diplomatic engagement with other regional stake-holders. If you want a quick survey of other reactions, look at the digest offered by Andrew Sullivan here. http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/07/26/digesting_the_wikileaks_document_dump Who will explain the havoc wreaked to the families still reeling with grief? | Rachel Reid
Since the period covered by these leaked war logs, the situation on the ground has got worse – not better – for Afghan civilians. Seven children killed by rockets in a mosque, a 16-year-old girl abused by a district police chief, more than 80 civilians killed in bomb attacks written off as insurgents. This dismal glimpse into the relentless chaos of war, seen through the hazy eyes of international soldiers in Afghanistan, comes from the massive leak of military field reports. And while US department of defence officials were quick to say that things have changed, this is sadly only half true. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/26/afghan-war-logs-more-afghans-might-suffer Revealed: Document Exposes US Double-talk On Lockerbie
A French national held hostage by al-Qaeda’s North African wing has been confirmed dead. Seventy-eight-year old Michel Germaneau was kidnapped in Niger some three months ago by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Is this killing a show of force? And how much of a threat is this al-Qaeda-affiliated armed group becoming? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvfhdhG5B9g&feature=youtube_gdata www.TheHeadlines.org
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