Veröffentlicht: 24. November 2010
Bill stipulates a two-thirds Knesset majority or a referendum on any potential land-for-peace deal concluded with Arabs. AlJazeera.net; November 22, 2010
Israel's parliament, backed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, has approved a law that requires a two-thirds Knesset majority or a referendum on any potential land-for-peace deal concluded with Arab neighbours.
The law, which was passed by a vote of 65 to 33 on Monday, calls...
Veröffentlicht: 16. November 2010
Sophie Crowe, Palestine Monitor, November 15, 2010
High unemployment and restrictions on travel into Israel have forced 25,000 labourers into working on Israeli-owned industrial zones in the West Bank. Beyond the reach of PA control, these workers are exploited by their Israeli employers.
"The settlement factories are manned primarily...
Veröffentlicht: 14. November 2010
The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) held a seminar yesterday, Friday 12th November, in central London to release a comprehensive Atlas of Palestine from 1917-1966.
The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) held a seminar yesterday, Friday 12th November, in central London to release a comprehensive Atlas of Palestine from 1917-1966. This is a vital piece of work documenting history, landscape and Geography of Palestine that has been erased by Israel. The eagerly...
Veröffentlicht: 14. November 2010
Middle East Monitor, November 11, 2010
The Director of Operation for the UN Relief and Works Agency [UNRWA] in the Gaza Strip, John Ging, has confirmed that "no tangible change" has occurred to the lives of Gaza's people since Israel announced it would ease its economic blockade of the Strip last June.
Israel's...
Veröffentlicht: 14. November 2010
Palestinian Information Center, November 11, 2010
GAZA, (PIC)-- Amid plummeting medical conditions in the Gaza Strip, the territory’s Health Ministry warned Wednesday that around 80 basic drugs have become out of stock.
Dr. Muneer Al-Bursh, the ministry’s pharmaceutical director wrote to the media: The most important of these...
Veröffentlicht: 14. November 2010
by Seumas Milne, November 11, 2010 With the peace process going nowhere, common experience on both sides of the Green Line is creating a new reality
In a quiet street in the Sheikh Jarrah district of occupied East Jerusalem 88-year-old Rifka al-Kurd is explaining how she came to live in the house she and her husband built as Palestinian refugees in the 1950s. As she speaks, three young ultra-orthodox Jewish settlers swagger in to stake their...
Veröffentlicht: 11. November 2010
By Haidar Eid - Gaza
In 'The Music of the Violin,' a short story by South African writer Njabulo Ndebele, one of the characters comments on the 'concessions' made by the apartheid regime to the indigenous people: "That's how it is planned. That we be given a little of everything, and so prize the little we have that we...
Veröffentlicht: 10. November 2010
PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity) # 508, Nov 5th, 2010
Israel’s Intelligence and Atomic Energy Minister Dan Meridor cancelled a visit to London England on Monday, after receiving information that he might face a lawsuit or an arrest warrant upon arrival.
The Foreign Ministry and the Justice Ministry notified Meridor that he might face...
Veröffentlicht: 3. November 2010
AlJazeera.net, October 27, 2010
Violent clashes have broken out between Palestinian-Israelis and Israeli police in response to a demonstration by members of a right-wing Jewish group in the town of Umm al-Fahm in northern Israel.
Israeli police fired tear gas at a crowd of Palestinian-Israelis who had gathered to...
Veröffentlicht: 3. November 2010
20-22 November - Registration now open
Registration is now open: http://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.com/en/register-for-the-london-session
London session, November 2010
London proposal document
After establishing the responsibilities and obligations of corporations under international...