[Jews for Justice for Palestinians] Weekly newsletter
June 25th, 2011
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights wins the right to
bring its case against Israel's statute of limitations which demands victims
of, for intance, the 2008-9 Opearion Cast Lead make compensation claims within
two years - which is impossible as this press release from PCHR explains
June 24th, 2011
An AP Exclusive quotes a Palestinian official as saying
they (the PA presumably) are offering to drop demands for a freeze on Israeli
settlements if peace talks can begin on the basis of the 1967 borders as Obama
proposed
June 23rd, 2011
Palestinians have one tremendous resource in their fight
for independence says Jeff Halper. This is civil society - at home, in the
Palestinian diaspora, amongst the millions abroad who support their cause. The
Palestinian Authority should treat us, not the US, as their greatest ally
June 23rd, 2011
Michael Oren cheers removal of Mavi Marmara from flotilla as
too large to stop 'with technical means', denies any lack of medicines or food
in Gaza, relies on San Remo defence and sees Israel as besieged by belligerent
Muslims and 'de-legitimisers'
June 23rd, 2011
The move to establish Jewish-only settlements in the Negev, home of the Bedouin, has been boosted by Ben
Gurion university, despite staff protests
June 22nd, 2011
A Jerusalem audience booed
distinguished and world-renowned author Amos Oz for condemning the expulsions,
Occupation and settlements as bad for Israel, the state he loves
June 22nd, 2011
WHO attributes Gaza's acute
shortage of medical products to the fear of suppliers they will not be paid
because Israel
has withheld tax transfers to the PA after the Hamas/Fatah deal
June 22nd, 2011
Israel has chosen as its new ambassador to the UK not a
diplomat, but the legal adviser to its Ministry of Foreign Affairs on many of
his country's most controversial practices. Here we publish the news of his
appointment, an interview with him on Operation Cast Lead and a transcript of
his answers on the Goldstone report at a MFA press briefing inn 2009
June 22nd, 2011
As the navy prepares for the Stay Human flotilla to Gaza, the IDF tries to
prepare for any Palestinian response to the September UN declaration of
statehood
June 21st, 2011
Not intifada, not suicide bombing, not negotiations, not
rockets; none of these tactics has yielded positive results for Palestinians.
Can Non-Violent Direct Action provide the traction needed?
June 21st, 2011
People invited to the 60th anniversary of the founding of a
hospital at Deir Yassin are told the picturesque ruins, 'abandoned' by previous
owners, are theirs to enjoy
June 21st, 2011
A story went round the world that a rabbinical court in Jerusalem had ordered
children to stone a dog to death. It would be funny had not some people
believed it
June 21st, 2011
Take an area where traditional heads of household have been
dispossessed of all political and economic authority, add guns and drugs, take
away any police authority and you are left with the violent chaos that is the
Palestinian village in Area B
June 20th, 2011
Author Alice Walker talks with Ali Abunimah about her
impending passage on the 'Stay Human' flotilla and the echoes of the US's Freedom
Riders - and presidential indifference. Below, we publish the letter of
American passengers on the ship Audacity of Hope, named in reference to Obama's
own 2006 book
June 20th, 2011
As the Stay Human Freedom Flotilla prepares to sail to
Gaza, Richard Silverstein points out that as the San Remo treaty applies only
to 'times of war', it provides no defence for the Israeli navy if it attacks
the flotilla A second post below - check the video - says that the Israeli navy
has had plenty of practice attacking Gazan fishing boats
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JPost News Letter
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Google chairman warns of censorship after Arab Spring
The use of the web by Arab democracy movements could lead to
some states cracking down harder on internet freedoms, Google's chairman says.
27 June 2011 Last updated at 12:42 ET
The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest
warrant for Libyan leader Col
Muammar Gaddafi, accusing him of crimes against humanity.
Sudan
President Omar al-Bashir's China
visit delayed
A plane carrying Sudan's
President Omar al-Bashir on his controversial trip to China has
turned back without official explanation.
Tepco treats radioactive water at Fukushima plant
Operators of Japan's
crippled Fukushima
nuclear plant have begun pumping decontaminated water in as part of a system to
cool damaged reactors.
Malaysian activists detained over banned rally
More than 30 Malaysian activists remain in detention, after
being arrested at the weekend weeks before a planned mass rally calling for
electoral reforms.
West Bank barrier section
at Bilin is re-routed
Israeli troops have begun to dismantle part of the
controversial West Bank barrier near the Palestinian village of Bilin, four
years after a court ordered it to be re-routed.
Syria
'sends more troops to Turkey
and Lebanon
borders'
Syria's military has moved into a village near the border
with Turkey and a town near the boundary with Lebanon, activists say.
Pakistan
denies rocket attacks on Afghan border
The Pakistani army has rejected claims made by Afghanistan
that it has fired more than 450 rockets into Afghan territory over the past
three weeks.
UK
military trainers in Pakistan
are withdrawn
British military trainers working with security forces in Pakistan have
been withdrawn at the request of the Pakistani government.
France
nuclear power funding gets 1bn euro boost
France
will invest 1bn euros (£0.8bn) in nuclear power despite warnings after the Fukushima disaster in Japan, President Nicolas Sarkozy
says.
Absence of ill Hugo Chavez sparks speculation
There is growing uncertainty in Venezuela
over President Hugo Chavez's health, two weeks after he underwent an operation
in Cuba
for what the authorities said was a pelvic abscess.
Israel
backs away from flotilla media threat
Warning to journalists covering planned Gaza-bound aid
convoy withdrawn, but navy told to stop breach of blockade.
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