Posted on August 30, 2015 by sarahbenton
Deir Yassin massacre, April 1948. Estimates of the number of
Palestinians killed in the village by Jewish militias and later in
Jerusalem (whither many had been transported) ranged at the time from
100 to 245.
A documentary on what American children learn at
Jewish Day Schools reveals a shocking end to the tradition of critical thought
from which Jewish intellectuals were created. In its place is indoctrination in
love for ‘mother’ Israel and such a one-sided account of Israel that many of
the ‘cogs’ in this production line are profoundly shocked when they discover
that Israel is a super-power which has tried to get rid of all traces of the
Palestinians who lived in the ‘land without people’.
Posted in News Tagged between the lines, israeli loyalty, israeli propaganda, jewish day schools.
Posted on August 29, 2015 by sarahbenton
France’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (R) is welcomed by
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki upon Fabius’ arrival in
Ramallah on Sunday, June 21st, 2015. France is under ‘intense pressure’
to drop its decision to refer the urgency of reaching a two-state
soltion to the UNSC. Photo by Mohamad Torokman/ Reuters
This is an old story – EU plans to outlaw settlement
products – and a new story: France and the PA are putting on the pressure for
the EU to implement its resolutions against importing settlement products.
What’s the hold-up? Contact your MEP!
Posted in News Tagged EU, eu sanctions, settlements produce
Posted on August 29, 2015 by sarahbenton
Palestinians from Nabi Saleh fight to free a little boy held by an Israeli soldier. The young girl biting the Israeli soldier’s arm is Ahed Tamimi, daughter of activists Bassem and Nariman Tahimi. Ahed has previously won an award for her courage in confronting the IDF. Reuters.
These photos show Palestinian women and a young girl
launching an attack on an armed, masked soldier who is pinning a boy with a
broken arm to a rock in the process of arresting him for throwing stones. It is
such an everyday story of life in a Palestinian village it would not normally
be in the news. But the pictures have ‘gone viral’ because the soldier has to
flee from the furious females.
Posted in News Tagged ahed tamimi, arrest boy with broken arm, photos, stone throwers
Posted on August 28, 2015 by sarahbenton
The 67th World Health Assembly requested WHO to
report on the health conditions in the oPt. The result is a unique portrait of
occupied Palestine told through the eyes of
health-care – precarious, poverty-stricken and horribly damaged by Israel’s
blockade.
Posted in News Tagged gaza health-care, israeli blockade, WHO report
Posted on August 28, 2015 by sarahbenton
Women Wage Peace – by fasting – near the Prime Minister’s Residence. Photo by Eric Cortellessa/Times of Israel
A snobbish discrimination against Sephardi and
Mizrahi Jews by the Ashkenazi elite has, from the beginning, been a driving
force in Israeli politics. While the Mizrahim in particular might have made
common cause with Palestinians most chose instead to prove a pure Jewishness.
Fascinating two-part article by Ran Greenstein.
Posted in Analysis, history Tagged ashkenazi, betar beitar football, discrimination, mizrahi
Posted on August 27, 2015 by sarahbenton
Women Wage Peace – by fasting – near the Prime Minister’s Residence. Photo by Eric Cortellessa/Times of Israel
A group of women – Women Wage Peace, set up after the
carnage of Operation Protective Edge – began a fast near the PM’s home on the
anniversary of the Operation and maintained it in shifts for the 50 days. They
were not the usual suspects – which may explain the lack of media coverage –
and one participant raises the perennial questions of how to build a political
movement.
Posted in News
Posted on August 27, 2015 by sarahbenton
This photo by Emad Badwan, Demotix, was taken in 2012, five months
after that year’s bombing of Gaza by the IDF when few houss had yet been
rebuilt. Two years later, Operation Protective Edge heaped rubble upon
rubble.
Israel and Palestine,
including Gaza,
seem to be frozen in stasis, doomed, if they move, to begin another round of
political and military conflict. Many outside agencies have tried to mediate.
Kerry blamed Israel
obduracy, others blame Hamas. Here the ICG addresses the main actors with
proposals on what each can do to move out of the conflict zone. Giving Hamas
more control over its income and recognition of Palestine as a state by all EU cpountries
would help .
Posted on August 26, 2015 by sarahbenton
Supporters of the US protest against the Iran deal line Seventh
Avenue during the ‘Stop Iran’ protest on Wednesday, July 22, 2015, near
Times Square in New York. Charles Ellis “Chuck” Schumer is the senior
United States Senator from New York and a member of the Democratic
Party. Photo by Frank Franklin II, AP
Having decided to lead the world (viz. the USA) in a crusade against Iran, PM Netanyahu has had to cast his decision
in the most hyperbolic terms – good v. evil, for Israel or for another holocaust of
Jews? Only Israelis are listening.
Posted in commentary Tagged iran deal, US/Israel
Posted on August 26, 2015 by sarahbenton
Why is the American/Israeli Right like ISIL? Because
neither grouping accepts national boundaries. In their march towards a
consensus comfort zone, Israelis lobby the American Right who in turn campaign
in Israeli settlements. Mike Huckabee leads the way.
Posted in News Tagged american republicans, dani dayan, Danny Danon, huckabee
Posted on August 26, 2015 by sarahbenton
Israeli officials destroy a water storage facility used by
Palestinian farmers outside the West Bank village of Yatta, near the
Israeli settlement of Sosia, in early June 2011. Photo by EPA
The table and text here from the Water Research
Institute are not directly about Israel
and Palestine. The
WRI ranks countries by degrees of water scarcity. The oPt are in the first
rank, Israel
comes in at no.8. Most of the top 20 are in the Middle
East. Lack of water does not create the current conflicts say the
authors but it does exacerbate them and this is going to get worse as water
shortages get more severe.
Posted in News, Report Tagged mideast conflicts, water, wri
Posted on August 25, 2015 by sarahbenton
Displaced people fleeing war on Hungarian-Serbian border (Photo: Eszter Zalan)
As we have seen time and time again the primary
target for jihadists is other Muslims. But many EU countries with a Roman
Catholic heritage will only give asylum to Christians, saying either that
Muslims would not fit into their country or that it is the Christians of the Middle East who are being persecuted and they are the
only ones who need asylum.
Posted in News Tagged anti-muslim discrimination, asylum seekers, barnabas fund, catholic eu
Posted on August 25, 2015 by sarahbenton
A petition has been created on the government’s
petition website calling for Prime Minister Netanyahu to be arrested for war
crimes when he arrives in the UK
next month, September. If it gains 100,000 signatures (i.e. entering and
confirming your email) parliament will have to debate it.
Posted in News Tagged arrest netanyahu, petition, war crimes
Posted on August 25, 2015 by sarahbenton
President Abbas and Yasser Abed Rabbo, then secretary general of the
PLO executive committee in happier days. Photo by Kobi Gideon/Flash90
President Abbas sits in his palace moving his knights
around – and ejecting them from his web of intrigue. His most recent move was
to close down the Palestinian Peace Coalition – the Palestinian side of the
Geneva Initiative – to skewer its head, Yasser Abed Rabbo, former
secretary-general of the PLO.
Long live Palestine
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