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Subject: [Peoples War] Today in Palestine! ~ Headlines June 25, 2009 ~
Land Theft and Destruction
Palestinian says settlers repeatedly damaged his home
Resident of West Bank village says settlers prevented construction on his home three times in a week.
http://www.ynetnews ..com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 3736552,00. html
Palestinians stop settler attempt to take over a house in East-Jerusalem
Palestinian residents of East-Jerusalem, managed twice to stop a group of Israeli settlers from taking over a house in the night of Wednesday on Thursday, a Palestinian Authority official told local media.
http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60937
Upper Nazareth to build orthodox neighborhood on former Arab land to counter number of Arabs
The mayor of Upper Nazareth is planning to build 3,050 housing units in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood out of concern for the growing Palestinian- Arab population in his town. The initiative has received the support of Interior Minister Eli Yishai, who publicly urged ultra-orthodox haredim to settle in the new neighborhood.
http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60936
Don't say we didn't know: The ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=swL_09u9Tak
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=cHskDlXHSx4
Detainees/Torture
Israeli army kidnaps at least 7 Palestinian civilians during invasions of the West Bank
Israeli forces detained between 7 and 9 Palestinians during pre-dawn invasions in the West Bank on Thursday.
http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60935
Palestinian detainee enters his 32nd year in detention
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees reported that detainee Fakhri Al Barghouthi, 56, from the Central West Bank city of Ramallah, entered his 32nd year in Israeli prisons, and became the second oldest detainees after Na'el Al Barghouthi.
http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60934
Prisoner club: Israel uses electric shock torture against children
The Palestinian prisoner club accused the IOA of committing new crimes of corporal torture against children through giving them electric shocks and beating them severely.
http://www.palestin e-info.co. .uk/En/
Prisoners in Israel refuse to don orange coveralls
Nablus – Ma'an – Palestinian prisoners at the Ramon facility in Israel signed an "accord of honor" in which they pledged to reject the "Israeli decision of wearing the orange costume that negatively affects the prisoners."
http://www.maannews .net/en/index. php?opr=ShowDeta ils&ID=38800
Israeli Hooligans
Israel wrestles with settler challenge
Instead, Israeli Jews angry about the army's recent demolition of several illegal settlement outposts appeared to have sent the letters. One compared the soldiers to Nazis, calling the officers "a gang of Jews with wretched souls, reminiscent of the Judenrat." Another said, "We know where you live. We will get to both you and your family." The threats, along with the violence that has accompanied attempts to evacuate illegal settlement outposts, represent a growing concern for Israeli authorities.
http://jta.org/ news/article/ 2009/06/11/ 1005831/israel- wrestles- with-settler- conundrum
The view from a West Bank hilltop
When a rumor spread late last month that Israeli security forces were about to evacuate Havat Gilad, Zar's comrades blocked nearby roads, threw stones at passing Palestinian cars, and reportedly set fire to nearby fields and olive groves owned by Palestinians. They ended up battling a blaze that crept up from the hills below their outpost toward the mobile homes of Havat Gilad -- they said it was set by local Palestinians in revenge.
http://jta.org/ news/article/ 2009/06/11/ 1005830/the- view-from- a-west-bank- hilltop
Some Jewish settlers turning against Israel
Over the last year and a half, radical settlers seem to have upped the ante. They have defaced Mu slim tombstones, set fire to Palestinian olive groves, assaulted Palestinians, slashed tires of IDF vehicles and thrown acid at Israeli soldiers. It's all part of a strategy the radicals call "price tag," which aims to greet every move by the government against illegal settlements with mayhem and violence. Radical youth, encouraged by a small number of veteran settler leaders, are at the forefront of this effort. Via text messages and with special phone lists, they spread plans for specific activities. Sometimes the message is as simple as three words: "Price tag now." Settler violence quickly follows.
http://jta.org/ news/article/ 2009/06/11/ 1005829/behind- the-headlines- radical-jewish- settlers
Israeli Discrimination
Aharon Barak: Jews want equality, and to kick Arabs out
Former Supreme Court president criticizes human rights situation in the 'occupied territories' , says it indirectly effects situation within Israel and warns, 'If we don't find a way to live in peace with the Arabs, we won't find a way to live in peace with ourselves'
Lawbreakers in the Supreme Court, by Gideon Levy
The Supreme Court now appears to be the settlers` next illegal outpost. They will get their wish, nothing will stop them. This couldn`t happen in a state of law.. We`re not talking about the candidates` opinions or religion - those have a place on the Supreme Court. It`s not their skullcaps that threaten the rule of law, but the bulldozer that built their illegal homes. The fact that they are settlers automatically disqualifies them from a judge`s position.
http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/1095543. html
Humanitarian Issues/Human Rights Violations
Weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territory 18 - 24 Jun 2009
http://www.reliefwe b.int/rw/ rwb.nsf/db900SID /PSLG-7TCFZY? OpenDocument&RSS20=02-P
More on conditions in Gaza
Check out this video series from American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) on daily life in the Gaza Strip, including this shocking video of Palestinians living in graveyards for want of better shelter.
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=2NN1_u6QSYU
ICRC: Israeli illegal settlements cause hardships to Palestinians
"Settler violence and severe restrictions on movement are affecting the daily lives of Palestinians in southern part of the occupied West Bank", Matteo Benatti head of the ICRC's Hebron office said.
http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/En/
Fatah Collaboration with Israel
Political arrests may derail unity talks, by Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Egyptian mediators have set 7 July as deadline for final Palestinian reconciliation talks in Cairo. The Egyptians say time is running out, and if there is no progress in July, they will no longer be prepared to arbitrate. Continued political detention and abuse of Palestinian prisoners by Hamas in Gaza and by the Fatah-affiliated Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank could, however, derail the talks before they even begin.
http://electronicin tifada.net/ v2/article10622. shtml
Hamas releases names of 40 detained by PA forces overnight
Nablus/Gaza - Ma'an - Hamas officials released a list of 40 names of its members detained by Palestinian Authority forces overnight Tuesday. The movement released a similar statement detailing the detention of 64 members the day before, and announced that over the past two days more than 100 members were rounded up.
http://www.maannews .net/en/index. php?opr=ShowDeta ils&ID=38784
Hamas: PA arrested 7 members from across West Bank
Statements from the movement said 64 were arrested overnight Tuesday, and another 40 overnight Wednesday.
http://www.maannews .net/en/index. php?opr=ShowDeta ils&ID=38798
Hamas: PA security escalated arrests and kidnapped 40 citizens Tuesday
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said that the PA security apparatuses escalated Tuesday their political arrest campaigns and kidnapped 40 Palestinian citizens including the deputy mayor of Nablus.
http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/En/
Fatah MPs block PLC speaker from entering its premises
Fatah MPs and PLC employees refused to open the gates of the PLC building in Ramallah for Dr. Aziz Dwaik, the PLC speaker, to address a press conference after his release from occupation jails.
Israel pulling forces out of 4 West Bank cities
AP - Bowing to pressure from Washington, Israel granted U.S.-trained Palestinian security forces greater autonomy in four major West Bank cities, Israeli and Palestinian defense officials said Thursday.
http://news. yahoo.com/ s/ap/20090625/ ap_on_re_ mi_ea/ml_ israel_palestini ans
Political Developments
Hamas Says Dweik "Real President" until Elections are Held
Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas said on Wednesday that Abdel Aziz Dweik, the speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council who was released a day earlier from Israeli prison, should be treated as acting president of the Palestinian Authority.
Meanwhile, the PA is planning to release on Thursday 40 Hamas members who are being held without trial in its prisons in the West Bank. Earlier this week, the PA leadership said it would free hundreds of Hamas detainees as a gesture aimed at boosting the chances of reconciliation with Hamas.
http://almanar. com.lb/NewsSite/ NewsDetails. aspx?id=91562&language=en
Hamas to send message to Obama
GAZA, June 25 (Xinhua) -- The Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, will send a special message to Washington soon explaining its position towards settling Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an official said Thursday. "Hamas is drafting the letter now and will deliver it to president Barack Obama via Western mediators," said Ahmed Yousef, an aide to Hamas' premier Ismail Haneya, in an interview with Xinhua.
http://news. xinhuanet. com/english/ 2009-06/25/ content_11602281 .htm
Fatah sets congress for August in Bethlehem
RAMALLAH, West Bank, June 24 (Reuters) - Top members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement agreed on Wednesday to hold its first congress in 20 years in August in Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
http://www.alertnet .org/thenews/ newsdesk/ LO701661. htm
Arabs vow to support Obama's Mideast peace drive
AFP - Arab foreign ministers vowed on Wednesday to support US President Barack Obama's Middle East peace efforts but said that normalisation with Israel depends on a halt to its settlement activity.
http://news. yahoo.com/ s/afp/20090624/ wl_afp/mideastco nflictarabdiplom acy
France asks Israel to 'freeze' Jewish settlements: presidency
PARIS (AFP) — French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to impose a "total freeze" on Jewish settlements in the West Bank, a presidency statement said. "The president of the republic called on Israel to immediately take all possible measures to encourage confidence" in its talks with the Palestinians, "beginning with the total freeze of settlement activities," it said.
http://www.google. com/hostednews/ afp/article/ ALeqM5gGdIierKoF fniO4tHXM206XJck hg
Chinese envoy to involve personal experience in Mideast to fulfill mission
RAMALLAH, June 23, (Xinhua) -- With more than 30 years of involvement in the work related to the Middle East issue, China's new special envoy to the Middle East Wu Sike said on Tuesday that he'll employ his personal experience on the region to help fulfill his mission. Wu arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday, starting the second leg of his first regional tour as China's new special envoy.
http://news. xinhuanet. com/english/ 2009-06/24/ content_11590280 .htm
Other News
PA: 5,500 Palestinians to attend Hajj
Jerusalem – Ma'an – More than 5,500 Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza will be allowed official slots for the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca this year, according to the Ministry of Waqf and Religious Affairs.
http://www.maannews .net/en/index. .php?opr= ShowDetails&ID=38796
Qalqiliya: US consul says Obama to support investment and development
Bethlehem - Ma'an - US Consul General Jake Walles visited Qalqiliya Thursday and met with local businessmen and women around the rebuilding of the Palestinian economy, the US consular office in Jerusalem announced.
http://www.maannews .net/en/index. php?opr=ShowDeta ils&ID=38788
Half of Israelis believe Shalit will be freed within year
As third anniversary of his kidnapping approaches, poll conducted for Ynet says 69% of public willing to see prisoners with 'blood on their hands' released in exchange for captive soldier. 'The numbers speak for themselves,' his father Noam Shalit says.
http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 3736723,00. html
Shalit: We don't have faith in the system
Father of captive soldier says until government's words translate into results, family only trusts its own efforts to bring Gilad home. IDF chief of staff says army has obligation to soldier it sent out into battle.
http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 3736659,00. html
Ramallah pilot raises green energy hope
While the world is still powered by oil and gas, the race is on to find alternative energy sources. In the Middle East, many countries are pursuing nuclear options, which is both expensive and controversial. Al Jazeeza's Nour Odeh reports from the West Bank where one young entrepreneur has shown that there's a natural alternative - using energy from the earth.
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=tkZO4-AL1DQ
France to invest 10 M. in infrastructure for the Bethlehem Industrial Zone
The French Foreign Minister reported that France would donate € 10 Million for a planned Industrial Zone in Bethlehem. The money would be used for basic infrastructure including roads, electricity networks, water networks and a water treatment facility.
http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60930
UCSB teacher who sent Gaza e-mail cleared by panel
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—An academic committee at University of California, Santa Barbara has found no reason to discipline a professor who sent an e-mail that compared Israel's offensive in Gaza to the Holocaust. University officials sent a letter to Sociology professor William I. Robinson Wednesday, saying the Academic Senate's ad hoc committee has closed the matter.
http://www.monterey herald.com/ state/ci_ 12683930
B'Tselem's video camera distribution project wins British award
On 22 June 2009 B'Tselem won a prestigious British prize for its groundbreaking work in the field of citizen journalism. The One World Media award was given to the organization for its camera distribution project.
http://www.btselem. org/english/ press_releases/ 20090623. asp
Exclusive: Leonard Cohen to perform in West Bank as well as Israel
International music legend Leonard Cohen will perform in the West Bank city of Ramallah two days after his upcoming performance in Israel, Haaretz has learned.
http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/1095627. html
Shas newspaper: System can't stand successful Moroccans
Stiffened punishment for Benizri arouses resentment within Sephardic haredi community. 'Why is Olmert still free?' asks front-page article of Shas newspaper, which claims discrimination. Former MK Maya: We are still in exile.
http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 3737044,00. html
Nixon administration pressured Israel on nuclear program, papers reveal
Inside the Nixon administration four decades ago, American officials weighed options to pressure Israel to declare that it had a nuclear weapons program.
http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/1095657. html
Activism/Solidarity /Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment
Aid Boats for Gaza Set Sail
Gaza, June 24, (The Palestine Telegraph) - The US-based Free Gaza movement is set to launch its eighth mission to break Israel's ongoing siege of Gaza, setting off from Larnaca port in Cyprus with two boats.
http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ gaza-strip/ 1196-aid- boats-for- gaza-set- sail
'Free Gaza' boats stopped in Cyprus
Cyprus' Merchant Shipping Department on Thursday prevented international activists from sailing to the Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian aid in defiance of Israel's blockade of the Palestinian territory. Department chief Sergios Sergiou said that a fishing boat and a small ferry that the Free Gaza Group were to use for the trip from Cyprus to Gaza had not undergone safety inspections which would take "at least a few days" to complete. "It's a dangerous trip," Sergiou told the Associated Press. "The vessels must undergo a general inspection before they are allowed to go."
http://palsolidarit y.org/2009/ 06/7338
An open letter to President Obama from Christian Peacemaker Teams
http://palsolidarit y.org/2009/ 06/7324
The necessity of cultural boycott, by Ilan Pappe
If there is anything new in the never-ending sad story of Palestine it is the clear shift in public opinion in the UK. I remember coming to these isles in 1980 when supporting the Palestinian cause was confined to the left and in it to a very particular section and ideological stream. The post-Holocaust trauma and guilt complex, military and economic interests and the charade of Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East all played a role in providing immunity for the State of Israel. Very few were moved, so it seems, by a state that had dispossessed half of Palestine's native population, demolished half of their villages and towns, discriminated against the minority among them who lived within its borders through an apartheid system and divided into enclaves two million and a half of them in a harsh and oppressive military occupation.
http://sabbah. biz/mt/archives/ 2009/06/24/ the-necessity- of-cultural- boycott/
Willy Wonka Goes to Washington—Part II
Last week, we blogged about our unsuccessful Willy Wonka-esque attempt to get into the FY2010 budget "mark-up" of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs to see if there was any discussion about conditioning President Obama's budget request for $2..775 billion in military aid to Israel.
http://endtheoccupa tionblog. blogspot. com/2009/ 06/willy- wonka-goes- to-washingtonpar t-ii.html
From Bil'in: "We refuse to die in silence."
A world-class drama is unfolding in Canada. The Palestinian village of Bil'in is taking two Quebec-based corporations, Green Park International and Green Mount International to court on charges that they are committing war crimes by building on Bil'in farmland as agents of Israel for the illegal settlement of Modi'in Illit. The corporations, assumed to be shell corporations located in Quebec for tax reasons, have been trying to stave off this case by procedural ploys -- including a challenge to the jurisdiction that will take place in the Montreal Courthouse on June 22, 2009. Mohammad Khatib, a Bil'in leader, the Israeli lawyer, Emily Schaeffer, and the Canadian lawyer, Mark Arnold, are traveling across Canada to explain the significance of this case and to raise funds for the court costs.
http://inpalestine. blogspot. com/2009/ 06/from-bilin- we-refuse- to-die-in- silence.html
Balearic Government Spends €300,000 in Pro-Palestinian Comic Book
The comic book was edited along with teaching pamphlets to promote the "Palestinian cause" among local teenagers and youngsters. It was a project of the Conselleria d'Afers Socials (Balearic social affairs ministry) that came to life after the demonstrations against Israel's attacks on Gaza last December and January. According to the Balearic Government, the main purpose of this project is to make local youngsters aware of the Palestinian- Israeli conflict and to promote cooperation and work for peace. Of the 5,000 printed comics, 4,000 will be distributed for free in education centres around the archipelago. The other 1,000 will be sold at the Barcelona International Comic Fair. The benefits of these sales will be distributed among different NGO's working in Palestine.
http://jta.org/ news/article/ 2009/06/24/ 1006107/balearic governmentspends 300000inpropales tiniancomicbook
International Conference: "Experiences of unification and rejuvenation of the left in Palestine and worldwide"
***For updates about the conference proceedings, see: tayyar-internationa lconference. blogspot. com*** On June 26 – 28, the Palestinian National Democratic Progressive Movement (PNDM - Tayyar) will hold a three-day-conferenc e on `Experiences of uniting the left in Palestine and the world` at the meeting hall of the Palestinian Red Crescent in Al-Bireh (Ramallah) and in Gaza.
http://stopthewall. org/latestnews/ 1995.shtml
Boycotting the Israeli academy
Israel's ongoing siege of Gaza has provoked an international outcry and organizing in support of Palestinian rights. Among the responses is a movement for boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) to pressure Israel in a variety of ways. This strategy takes as its inspiration the international movement to end apartheid in South Africa.
http://socialistwor ker.org/2009/ 06/25/boycotting -the-israeli- academy
Restrictions on Palestinian Media
Audio: A reporter tries to buy new equipment in Gaza
In late 2008, I needed to replace my old recording equipment that had poor sound quality and purchase a new audio recorder. Unfortunately, with the ongoing Israeli siege, this simple task of obtaining a new recorder was nearly impossible. The following audio diary tells the story of my efforts to receive a new audio recorder from the US so that I could continue documenting the many untold stories of the people of Gaza. Rami Almeghari writes from the Gaza Strip.
http://electronicin tifada.net/ v2/article10619. shtml
Western Hypocrisy
Selective Sympathy for Iran
"There was no campaign to use Twitter as a tool to protest the killings and defend the Gazans right to live."
http://www.blackage ndareport. com/?q=content/ freedom-rider- selective- sympathy- iran
Committee to Protect Certain Journalists Only
I have been receiving almost hourly bulletins about the persecution of journalists in Iran. This deserves coverage and condemnation of course. But in the same few days, the PA's armed goons have been arresting (or kidnapping is more like it) Palestinian journalists who don't follow orders of Dahlan. The kidnapping of Sari Sammur is only a most recent example.
http://angryarab. blogspot. com/2009/ 06/committee- to-protect- certain.html
Death on camera
Attention: disturbing content ahead. The following video, which probably half the world has seen, captures the death on camera of young Iranian woman killed while non-violently protesting for her rights.. CNN broadcasted it. It a "symbol." The [other] video on the other hand, is of the death on camera of Bassem Abu Rameh, a young Palestinian non-violent protester, near the apartheid wall that cuts into Bil'in. It wasn't broadcast on CNN. It is not a "symbol."
http://jewssansfron tieres.blogspot. com/2009/ 06/death- on-camera. html
Brutal
"Iranian officials stepped up efforts to crush the remaining resistance to a disputed presidential election on Wednesday, as security forces overwhelmed a small group of protesters with brutal beatings, tear gas and gunshots in the air." Notice that when Western media approve of certain demonstrations or movements, they allow themselves to insert editorial labels and comments into the text of the article itself. I mean, the New York Times would never describe regular Israeli shooting at demonstrators as brutal. What gives? [end]
http://angryarab. blogspot. com/2009/ 06/brutal. html
Zizek Rule
This is Zizek Rule: When Iranian demonstrates against their government, it is good Islam: "And, last but not least, what this means is that there is a genuine liberating potential in Islam – to find a "good" Islam, one doesn't have to go back to the 10th century, we have it right here, in front of our eyes." But when Palestinian demonstrates against the Israeli occupation, it is bad Islam. Did you get that? Write it down for future purposes. [end]
http://angryarab. blogspot. .com/2009/ 06/zizek- rule.html
Happens everywhere
"Egypt's National Council for Women, which should by all rights be addressing these issues, is in denial. Mohamed Nasef, a spokesman for the organization, says reports are "exaggerated, " but also that harassment "happens everywhere." " I mean, he is right of course, that it happens everywhere. But why do Western media care about harassment in Egypt more than they care about harassment in the US. Just as they cover "honor crimes" in Jordan, but ignore the 24 women who are killed EVERY WEEK in the US by jealous boyfriends or husbands.
http://angryarab. blogspot. com/2009/ 06/happens- everywhere. html
Analysis/Op- ed
The end of Zionism
If these dangerous processes continue and even intensify, Israeli society will move from A.D. Gordon's system of labor to the charitable support system of the pre-state Jewish community, and from "the people's army" to a French-style foreign legion.. That will bring us to the complete reversal of the Zionist revolution - and perhaps even to the end of the Zionist state.
http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/883868. html
"There Was No Single Year We Didn't Face Racism"
Reflections of an Arab of 1948 Palestine Living in Israel: In an interview conducted by Isma'il Kushkush in Geneva, Mohammed Zeidan, Director of the Arab Association for Human Rights working in the 1948 Palestine, used the words below to describe the life of Arab Palestinians inside Israel.
http://www.islamonl ine.net/servlet/ Satellite? c=Article_ C&cid=1243825142870&pagename=Zone- English-Muslim_
Affairs%2FMAELayout
Is Lieberman's plan of gerrymandering a Palestinian Arab state gaining traction in D.C.?
David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy is an important member of the Israel lobby. He wrote a book on the "peace process" lately with the Holy Avatar of the lobby, Dennis Ross. The avatar has lately been given enhanced powers in the Obama Administration for the simple undeniable reason that in order to do anything in Israel/Palestine, Obama must truck with the Israel lobby, not defy it.
http://www.philipwe iss.org/mondowei ss/2009/06/ david-makovsky- of-the-washingto n-institute- seems-to- be-endorsing
-the-avigdor- lieberman- plan-give- the-palestinians -a-state- wi.html
'George Costanza' offers humor as solution for Mideast peace
Jason Alexander, who spent nine years playing ambiguously Jewish George Costanza on Seinfeld, told a crowd in Jerusalem on Wednesday that the search for an Israeli-Palestinian solution and the show about nothing that launched him to fame have one thing in common - neither seemed destined to succeed.
http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/1095352. html
Israeli Left Fails at Logic, By Belen Fernandez
In a June 24 article on the Haaretz website entitled 'Leave the settlers there,' opinion writer Yair Sheleg condemns the Israeli left for comparing Jewish settlers to Hamas. According to Sheleg, the comparison is "based on the following logic: The Israeli majority is the equivalent of the Palestine Liberation Organization, which recognized Israel and is willing to make peace with it, while the settlers are equivalent to Hamas in their refusal."
http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=15233
Carlos Latuff cartoon
http://palestinethi nktank.com/ 2009/06/24/ cartoon-of- the-day-110/
Iraq
Bomb kills 61 in Baghdad's Sadr City
BAGHDAD, June 24 (Reuters) - A bomb killed 61 people on Wednesday at a market in eastern Baghdad's volatile Sadr City slum, police said, six days before U.S. combat troops are due to withdraw from Iraqi towns and cities.
http://www.alertnet .org/thenews/ newsdesk/ LO579481. htm
Four Iraqi police killed near Fallujah
AFP - Four Iraqi policemen were killed on Thursday in two separate incidents near the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, west of the capital, police officials told AFP.
http://news. yahoo.com/ s/afp/20090625/ wl_mideast_ afp/iraqunrestfa llujah
Police say bomb kills 7 in southwest Baghdad
AP - A bombing at a bus station in a Shiite neighborhood in southwest Baghdad on Thursday killed at least seven people and wounded 31 others, police said, the latest in a series of deadly attacks ahead of a U.S. military withdrawal from cities next week.
http://news. yahoo.com/ s/ap/20090625/ ap_on_re_ mi_ea/ml_ iraq
Wednesday: 32 Iraqis Killed, 157 Wounded
Updated at 2:21 p.m. EDT, June 24, 2009 At least 62 Iraqis were killed and 157 more were wounded in the latest attacks. No Coalition deaths were reported. Meanwhile, an Iraqi girl who was blinded and disfigured in a 2006 Sadr City bombing has returned home to Iraq following reconstructive surgery in London.
http://original. antiwar.com/ updates/2009/ 06/24/wednesday- 5-iraqis- killed-31- wounded/
Iraq PM slams cleric's death calls
AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Thursday criticised Arab and Muslim countries for their silence on calls by a senior Saudi cleric for Shiite scholars to be killed.
http://news. yahoo.com/ s/afp/20090625/ wl_mideast_ afp/iraqunrestre ligionmalikiisla m
In Iraq, a Different Struggle for Power, by Anthony Shadid
BAQUBAH, Iraq -- At 11 a.m. one day in May, eight Iraqi army Humvees barreled into government headquarters of fractious Diyala province, clouds of dust billowing behind them. They had orders to arrest a council member who belonged to a party that had run afoul of Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq's increasingly assertive prime minister.
http://www.washingt onpost.com/ wp-dyn/content/ article/2009/ 06/24/AR20090624 03497.html? wprss=rss_ world/mideast
Stabilizing Iraq: Why Mosul is a special case
The fatal shooting of a young man on a crowded downtown street illustrates why Americans could have trouble completely leaving this troubled provincial capital.
http://www.csmonito r.com/2009/ 0624/p06s17- wome.html
Iraqi's sweet sorrow: Bomb sniffers detect his perfume (McClatchy Newspapers)
McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD It would be futile to try to pinpoint the person in Baghdad who's suffered the most during six years of war and sectarian violence.
http://news. yahoo.com/ s/mcclatchy/ 20090624/ wl_mcclatchy/ 3259391
Iran
8 Basijis shot dead during Tehran unrest
Twenty people including, eight Basij members, have been killed during the post-election unrest in Tehran, Iranian officials say. All the Basij members were killed by gunfire, indicating that there were gunmen fomenting unrest among protesters, the officials said.
http://www.presstv. ir/detail. .aspx?id= 98984
Iran university professors 'held'
Scores of professors taken away after meeting opposition leader, newspaper says.
http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ middleeast/ 2009/06/20096253 3640849336. html
Now Mousavi's family feels force of crackdown
There were fears last night that the wife of Iran's opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi had been arrested after a defiant statement that protesters should not buckle despite being in a situation she likened to martial law.
http://www.independ ent.co.uk/ news/world/ middle-east/ now-mousavis- family-feels- force-of- crackdown- 1718051.html
Iran TV: partial vote recount verifies election result
TEHRAN, June 24 (Reuters) - Iranian state television said on Wednesday a partial recount of the vote in the country's disputed June 12 presidential election had verified the result.
http://www.. alertnet. org/thenews/ newsdesk/ DAH456610. htm
Baharestan Square, Tehran, 24 June 2009
Basiji are beaten by the people in Iran
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=mLksmi_ 0iwg
Tehran 3 Tir June 24th
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=ETICRjCzetE
3 Tir Baharestan (Tehran) 4:30pm June 24 2009
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=9VWGfxtxfu0
Tehran Protests Turn Into "Bloodbath"
"It turned into a bloodbath ... they threw some people off the bridges....after the Basijis came, they began to use tear gas, sticks and shooting," he said.
http://www.. cbsnews.com/ stories/2009/ 06/24/world/ main5110028. shtml?tag= stack
Report: Iran minister says CIA funding 'rioters'
Iran's interior minister on Wednesday accused US spy agency the CIA of helping to fund "rioters", stepping up accusations of Western involvement in street unrest following the country's disputed election.
http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 3736430,00. html
Neda Soltan's family 'forced out of home' by Iranian authorities
Parents of young woman shot dead near protests are banned from mourning and funeral is canceled, neighbors say.
http://www.guardian .co.uk/world/ 2009/jun/ 24/neda-soltan- iran-family- forced-out
Iran protest map
Watch protest footage filmed by people of Tehran.
http://news. bbc.co.uk/ go/rss/-/ 2/hi/middle_ east/8117054. stm
'This was a massacre. You should stop this. You should help the people of Iran.'
CNN's Ivan Watson was left dumbfounded on Wednesday during an interview with an unnamed eyewitness in Iran who told the news network that security forces mercilessly beat protesters. The woman, whose identity CNN chose to keep secret for fear of reprisal by the Iranian government, also said she believed security forces had fired into a crowd. "The black-clad police, they stopped everyone, they emptied the buses that were taking people [to the protests] … and then all of a sudden some 500 people with clubs and boots [came out of a mosque] and they poured into the street and they started beating everyone," the eyewitness said.
http://rawstory. com/08/news/ 2009/06/24/ security- forces-beat- people-like- animals/
The Ahmadinajad Matter
Last night, just before I went to sleep, I saw a Facebook group (with hundreds of supporters) pledging support for Ahmadinajad. It mostly set up and supported by Arabs, some of whom are on my Facebook list of friends. I was naturally annoyed. I mean, supporting Ahmadinajad on sunny days is objectionable but supporting him now is rather most disturbing if not digusting. When they support Ahmadinajad now, are they not supporting the shooting at demonstrators? I worry that this issue is really going to create a rift between not only Arab left and Iranian left but between Iranians and Arabs generally. And let us remember that Ahmadinajad' s rhetoric on Palestine has been a gift to Zionist propaganda and MEMRI would live to just transcribe and translate his lousy speeches. But Ahmadinajad' s rhetoric--I hear from Iranians--has been also hurting the Palestinian cause among Iranians.
http://angryarab. blogspot. com/2009/ 06/ahmadinajad- matter.html
Arab attitudes to Ahmadinajad
The position of Arab intellectual and public sympathy for Ahmadinajad needs to be explained (not justified). It is not that Arabs like Ahdmadinajad per se: but they really hate his enemies so much that they make the choice. The fact that Ahmadinajad' s enemies are the regimes of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan, not to mention Israel and the US, endears him to many Arabs. Having said that: I personally don't trust the Iranian regime on the question of Palestine. Remember that it dealt with Israel during the Iran-Iraq war. And if there is one that I distrust and despise most, it is Rafsanjani-- who one should remember is the fruit of the Iranian regime itself. If the regime was not corrupt at it core, a Rafsanjani would not have emerged. The genuine Iranian reform movement (and I am not talking about the Allahu Akbar crowd of Mousavi) needs to distance itself from Rafsanjani, just as the Syrian opposition movement (finally) distanced itself from `Abdul-Halim Khaddam. By the way, it is hilarious when Zizek dismisses talk about Ahmadinajad as a leftist (and I of course agree because Ahmadinajad and the Islamic regime don't deserve the label of the left), and then implies that Mousavi or Rafsanjani are leftists. In sum, Neither Ahmadinajad, nor Mousavi or Rafsanjani. Chant after me NOW. [end]
http://angryarab. blogspot. com/2009/ 06/arab-attitude s-to-ahmadinajad .html
Arab countries: Is Iran's unrest an opportunity or a threat?
If the mass protests in Iran succeed in bringing about change, it could produce a better neighbor – but also set a dangerous precedent for oppressive regimes.
http://www.csmonito r.com/2009/ 0625/p06s01- wome.html
Will Iran's turmoil change the Middle East?
The Islamic republic is unlikely to change its foreign policy or nuclear program, no matter who comes out on top. But the crisis could change Arab relations with the US and Iraq.
http://www.csmonito r.com/2009/ 0625/p06s04- wome.html
U.S. and other world news
U.S. to send ambassador back to Syria
President Obama has decided to send a U.S. ambassador back to Syria, a dramatic sign of reconciliation between the two countries, senior administration officials tell CNN. The announcement is expected to be made this week.
http://edition. cnn.com/2009/ POLITICS/ 06/23/US. syria.ambassador /index.html? eref=edition_ world
The Story of Abdul Rahim al-Ginco, By ANDY WORTHINGTON
In over three years of researching and reporting about the prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, I learned early on to expect, as one of Guantánamo's first commanders, Maj. Gen. Michael Dunlavey explained, that many of the men were "Mickey Mouse" prisoners, with no connection to terrorism whatsoever, and, in hundreds of cases, not even a tangential involvement in the Taliban's inter-Muslim civil war with Afghanistan's Northern Alliance, which preceded the 9/11 attacks, but morphed into a war against the U.S. after "Operation Enduring Freedom" -- the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan -- began on October 7, 2001
http://www.counterp unch..org/ worthington06242 009.html
CIA and Assassinations: The Guatemala 1954 Documents
These documents, including an instructional guide on assassination found among the training files of the CIA's covert "Operation PBSUCCESS," were among several hundred records released by the Agency on May 23, 1997 on its involvement in the infamous 1954 coup in Guatemala.
http://www.gwu. edu/%7Ensarchiv/ NSAEBB/NSAEBB4/ index.html
A tale of two parties | Brian Whitaker
While 69 revelling Filipinos face prison and flogging in Saudi Arabia, wealthy British expatriates are left to party in peace. Hot on the heels of the gay night out in Saudi Arabia that ended disastrously in the arrest of 69 Filipinos comes word of some more "offensive" partying by foreigners – this time stalwarts of Riyadh's expatriate English community, including the British ambassador himself.
http://www.guardian .co.uk/commentis free/belief/ 2009/jun/ 25/saudi- arabia-party- filipino
Breakthrough? Saudi women train to sell lingerie
Using colorful bras donated by employees at Victoria's Secret, a group of 26 mostly Saudi women completed the first course of its kind to be offered in the kingdom — how to fit, stock and sell underwear — a training organisers hope will help boost a campaign to lift the ban on women selling underwear in the kingdom.
http://www.independ ent.co.uk/ news/world/ middle-east/ breakthrough- saudi-women- train-to- sell-lingerie- 1717567.html
Jazzing up the abaya
Few images shout Middle East quite like the abaya - the long, black overgarment worn by millions of women across the Arab world.
http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/middle_ east/8117185. stm
Whitening Power: Colonialism in a Bottle
We have a visitor from Ramallah; my sister-in-law to be exact. Tucked away in her truly and surprisingly minimal luggage is a host of skin care and other cosmetic products. This morning, one of them caught my eye: "Herbal Formulas Hollywood Style Night Whitening Cream." It is the "Professional Formula."
http://www.kabobfes t.com/2009/ 06/whitening- power-colonialis m-in-a-bottle. html
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www..TheHeadlines. org
Palestinian says settlers repeatedly damaged his home
Resident of West Bank village says settlers prevented construction on his home three times in a week.
http://www.ynetnews ..com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 3736552,00. html
Palestinians stop settler attempt to take over a house in East-Jerusalem
Palestinian residents of East-Jerusalem, managed twice to stop a group of Israeli settlers from taking over a house in the night of Wednesday on Thursday, a Palestinian Authority official told local media.
http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60937
Upper Nazareth to build orthodox neighborhood on former Arab land to counter number of Arabs
The mayor of Upper Nazareth is planning to build 3,050 housing units in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood out of concern for the growing Palestinian- Arab population in his town. The initiative has received the support of Interior Minister Eli Yishai, who publicly urged ultra-orthodox haredim to settle in the new neighborhood.
http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60936
Don't say we didn't know: The ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=swL_09u9Tak
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=cHskDlXHSx4
Detainees/Torture
Israeli army kidnaps at least 7 Palestinian civilians during invasions of the West Bank
Israeli forces detained between 7 and 9 Palestinians during pre-dawn invasions in the West Bank on Thursday.
http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60935
Palestinian detainee enters his 32nd year in detention
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees reported that detainee Fakhri Al Barghouthi, 56, from the Central West Bank city of Ramallah, entered his 32nd year in Israeli prisons, and became the second oldest detainees after Na'el Al Barghouthi.
http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60934
Prisoner club: Israel uses electric shock torture against children
The Palestinian prisoner club accused the IOA of committing new crimes of corporal torture against children through giving them electric shocks and beating them severely.
http://www.palestin e-info.co. .uk/En/
Prisoners in Israel refuse to don orange coveralls
Nablus – Ma'an – Palestinian prisoners at the Ramon facility in Israel signed an "accord of honor" in which they pledged to reject the "Israeli decision of wearing the orange costume that negatively affects the prisoners."
http://www.maannews .net/en/index. php?opr=ShowDeta ils&ID=38800
Israeli Hooligans
Israel wrestles with settler challenge
Instead, Israeli Jews angry about the army's recent demolition of several illegal settlement outposts appeared to have sent the letters. One compared the soldiers to Nazis, calling the officers "a gang of Jews with wretched souls, reminiscent of the Judenrat." Another said, "We know where you live. We will get to both you and your family." The threats, along with the violence that has accompanied attempts to evacuate illegal settlement outposts, represent a growing concern for Israeli authorities.
http://jta.org/ news/article/ 2009/06/11/ 1005831/israel- wrestles- with-settler- conundrum
The view from a West Bank hilltop
When a rumor spread late last month that Israeli security forces were about to evacuate Havat Gilad, Zar's comrades blocked nearby roads, threw stones at passing Palestinian cars, and reportedly set fire to nearby fields and olive groves owned by Palestinians. They ended up battling a blaze that crept up from the hills below their outpost toward the mobile homes of Havat Gilad -- they said it was set by local Palestinians in revenge.
http://jta.org/ news/article/ 2009/06/11/ 1005830/the- view-from- a-west-bank- hilltop
Some Jewish settlers turning against Israel
Over the last year and a half, radical settlers seem to have upped the ante. They have defaced Mu slim tombstones, set fire to Palestinian olive groves, assaulted Palestinians, slashed tires of IDF vehicles and thrown acid at Israeli soldiers. It's all part of a strategy the radicals call "price tag," which aims to greet every move by the government against illegal settlements with mayhem and violence. Radical youth, encouraged by a small number of veteran settler leaders, are at the forefront of this effort. Via text messages and with special phone lists, they spread plans for specific activities. Sometimes the message is as simple as three words: "Price tag now." Settler violence quickly follows.
http://jta.org/ news/article/ 2009/06/11/ 1005829/behind- the-headlines- radical-jewish- settlers
Israeli Discrimination
Aharon Barak: Jews want equality, and to kick Arabs out
Former Supreme Court president criticizes human rights situation in the 'occupied territories' , says it indirectly effects situation within Israel and warns, 'If we don't find a way to live in peace with the Arabs, we won't find a way to live in peace with ourselves'
Lawbreakers in the Supreme Court, by Gideon Levy
The Supreme Court now appears to be the settlers` next illegal outpost. They will get their wish, nothing will stop them. This couldn`t happen in a state of law.. We`re not talking about the candidates` opinions or religion - those have a place on the Supreme Court. It`s not their skullcaps that threaten the rule of law, but the bulldozer that built their illegal homes. The fact that they are settlers automatically disqualifies them from a judge`s position.
http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/1095543. html
Humanitarian Issues/Human Rights Violations
Weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territory 18 - 24 Jun 2009
http://www.reliefwe b.int/rw/ rwb.nsf/db900SID /PSLG-7TCFZY? OpenDocument&RSS20=02-P
More on conditions in Gaza
Check out this video series from American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) on daily life in the Gaza Strip, including this shocking video of Palestinians living in graveyards for want of better shelter.
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=2NN1_u6QSYU
ICRC: Israeli illegal settlements cause hardships to Palestinians
"Settler violence and severe restrictions on movement are affecting the daily lives of Palestinians in southern part of the occupied West Bank", Matteo Benatti head of the ICRC's Hebron office said.
http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/En/
Fatah Collaboration with Israel
Political arrests may derail unity talks, by Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Egyptian mediators have set 7 July as deadline for final Palestinian reconciliation talks in Cairo. The Egyptians say time is running out, and if there is no progress in July, they will no longer be prepared to arbitrate. Continued political detention and abuse of Palestinian prisoners by Hamas in Gaza and by the Fatah-affiliated Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank could, however, derail the talks before they even begin.
http://electronicin tifada.net/ v2/article10622. shtml
Hamas releases names of 40 detained by PA forces overnight
Nablus/Gaza - Ma'an - Hamas officials released a list of 40 names of its members detained by Palestinian Authority forces overnight Tuesday. The movement released a similar statement detailing the detention of 64 members the day before, and announced that over the past two days more than 100 members were rounded up.
http://www.maannews .net/en/index. php?opr=ShowDeta ils&ID=38784
Hamas: PA arrested 7 members from across West Bank
Statements from the movement said 64 were arrested overnight Tuesday, and another 40 overnight Wednesday.
http://www.maannews .net/en/index. php?opr=ShowDeta ils&ID=38798
Hamas: PA security escalated arrests and kidnapped 40 citizens Tuesday
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said that the PA security apparatuses escalated Tuesday their political arrest campaigns and kidnapped 40 Palestinian citizens including the deputy mayor of Nablus.
http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/En/
Fatah MPs block PLC speaker from entering its premises
Fatah MPs and PLC employees refused to open the gates of the PLC building in Ramallah for Dr. Aziz Dwaik, the PLC speaker, to address a press conference after his release from occupation jails.
http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/En/
Hamas: Fatah escalated kidnappings as a reply to Dwaik's initiative
Hamas said that Fatah faction responded to PLC speaker Dr. Aziz Dwaik's initiative to end the internal division by kidnapping more ex-detainees and wives of prisoners still in Israeli jails.
http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/En/
Hamas: Fatah escalated kidnappings as a reply to Dwaik's initiative
Hamas said that Fatah faction responded to PLC speaker Dr. Aziz Dwaik's initiative to end the internal division by kidnapping more ex-detainees and wives of prisoners still in Israeli jails.
http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/En/
Israel pulling forces out of 4 West Bank cities
AP - Bowing to pressure from Washington, Israel granted U.S.-trained Palestinian security forces greater autonomy in four major West Bank cities, Israeli and Palestinian defense officials said Thursday.
http://news. yahoo.com/ s/ap/20090625/ ap_on_re_ mi_ea/ml_ israel_palestini ans
Political Developments
Hamas Says Dweik "Real President" until Elections are Held
Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas said on Wednesday that Abdel Aziz Dweik, the speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council who was released a day earlier from Israeli prison, should be treated as acting president of the Palestinian Authority.
Meanwhile, the PA is planning to release on Thursday 40 Hamas members who are being held without trial in its prisons in the West Bank. Earlier this week, the PA leadership said it would free hundreds of Hamas detainees as a gesture aimed at boosting the chances of reconciliation with Hamas.
http://almanar. com.lb/NewsSite/ NewsDetails. aspx?id=91562&language=en
Hamas to send message to Obama
GAZA, June 25 (Xinhua) -- The Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, will send a special message to Washington soon explaining its position towards settling Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an official said Thursday. "Hamas is drafting the letter now and will deliver it to president Barack Obama via Western mediators," said Ahmed Yousef, an aide to Hamas' premier Ismail Haneya, in an interview with Xinhua.
http://news. xinhuanet. com/english/ 2009-06/25/ content_11602281 .htm
Fatah sets congress for August in Bethlehem
RAMALLAH, West Bank, June 24 (Reuters) - Top members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement agreed on Wednesday to hold its first congress in 20 years in August in Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
http://www.alertnet .org/thenews/ newsdesk/ LO701661. htm
Arabs vow to support Obama's Mideast peace drive
AFP - Arab foreign ministers vowed on Wednesday to support US President Barack Obama's Middle East peace efforts but said that normalisation with Israel depends on a halt to its settlement activity.
http://news. yahoo.com/ s/afp/20090624/ wl_afp/mideastco nflictarabdiplom acy
France asks Israel to 'freeze' Jewish settlements: presidency
PARIS (AFP) — French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to impose a "total freeze" on Jewish settlements in the West Bank, a presidency statement said. "The president of the republic called on Israel to immediately take all possible measures to encourage confidence" in its talks with the Palestinians, "beginning with the total freeze of settlement activities," it said.
http://www.google. com/hostednews/ afp/article/ ALeqM5gGdIierKoF fniO4tHXM206XJck hg
Chinese envoy to involve personal experience in Mideast to fulfill mission
RAMALLAH, June 23, (Xinhua) -- With more than 30 years of involvement in the work related to the Middle East issue, China's new special envoy to the Middle East Wu Sike said on Tuesday that he'll employ his personal experience on the region to help fulfill his mission. Wu arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday, starting the second leg of his first regional tour as China's new special envoy.
http://news. xinhuanet. com/english/ 2009-06/24/ content_11590280 .htm
Other News
PA: 5,500 Palestinians to attend Hajj
Jerusalem – Ma'an – More than 5,500 Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza will be allowed official slots for the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca this year, according to the Ministry of Waqf and Religious Affairs.
http://www.maannews .net/en/index. .php?opr= ShowDetails&ID=38796
Qalqiliya: US consul says Obama to support investment and development
Bethlehem - Ma'an - US Consul General Jake Walles visited Qalqiliya Thursday and met with local businessmen and women around the rebuilding of the Palestinian economy, the US consular office in Jerusalem announced.
http://www.maannews .net/en/index. php?opr=ShowDeta ils&ID=38788
Half of Israelis believe Shalit will be freed within year
As third anniversary of his kidnapping approaches, poll conducted for Ynet says 69% of public willing to see prisoners with 'blood on their hands' released in exchange for captive soldier. 'The numbers speak for themselves,' his father Noam Shalit says.
http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 3736723,00. html
Shalit: We don't have faith in the system
Father of captive soldier says until government's words translate into results, family only trusts its own efforts to bring Gilad home. IDF chief of staff says army has obligation to soldier it sent out into battle.
http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 3736659,00. html
Ramallah pilot raises green energy hope
While the world is still powered by oil and gas, the race is on to find alternative energy sources. In the Middle East, many countries are pursuing nuclear options, which is both expensive and controversial. Al Jazeeza's Nour Odeh reports from the West Bank where one young entrepreneur has shown that there's a natural alternative - using energy from the earth.
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=tkZO4-AL1DQ
France to invest 10 M. in infrastructure for the Bethlehem Industrial Zone
The French Foreign Minister reported that France would donate € 10 Million for a planned Industrial Zone in Bethlehem. The money would be used for basic infrastructure including roads, electricity networks, water networks and a water treatment facility.
http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60930
UCSB teacher who sent Gaza e-mail cleared by panel
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—An academic committee at University of California, Santa Barbara has found no reason to discipline a professor who sent an e-mail that compared Israel's offensive in Gaza to the Holocaust. University officials sent a letter to Sociology professor William I. Robinson Wednesday, saying the Academic Senate's ad hoc committee has closed the matter.
http://www.monterey herald.com/ state/ci_ 12683930
B'Tselem's video camera distribution project wins British award
On 22 June 2009 B'Tselem won a prestigious British prize for its groundbreaking work in the field of citizen journalism. The One World Media award was given to the organization for its camera distribution project.
http://www.btselem. org/english/ press_releases/ 20090623. asp
Exclusive: Leonard Cohen to perform in West Bank as well as Israel
International music legend Leonard Cohen will perform in the West Bank city of Ramallah two days after his upcoming performance in Israel, Haaretz has learned.
http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/1095627. html
Shas newspaper: System can't stand successful Moroccans
Stiffened punishment for Benizri arouses resentment within Sephardic haredi community. 'Why is Olmert still free?' asks front-page article of Shas newspaper, which claims discrimination. Former MK Maya: We are still in exile.
http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 3737044,00. html
Nixon administration pressured Israel on nuclear program, papers reveal
Inside the Nixon administration four decades ago, American officials weighed options to pressure Israel to declare that it had a nuclear weapons program.
http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/1095657. html
Activism/Solidarity /Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment
Aid Boats for Gaza Set Sail
Gaza, June 24, (The Palestine Telegraph) - The US-based Free Gaza movement is set to launch its eighth mission to break Israel's ongoing siege of Gaza, setting off from Larnaca port in Cyprus with two boats.
http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ gaza-strip/ 1196-aid- boats-for- gaza-set- sail
'Free Gaza' boats stopped in Cyprus
Cyprus' Merchant Shipping Department on Thursday prevented international activists from sailing to the Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian aid in defiance of Israel's blockade of the Palestinian territory. Department chief Sergios Sergiou said that a fishing boat and a small ferry that the Free Gaza Group were to use for the trip from Cyprus to Gaza had not undergone safety inspections which would take "at least a few days" to complete. "It's a dangerous trip," Sergiou told the Associated Press. "The vessels must undergo a general inspection before they are allowed to go."
http://palsolidarit y.org/2009/ 06/7338
An open letter to President Obama from Christian Peacemaker Teams
http://palsolidarit y.org/2009/ 06/7324
The necessity of cultural boycott, by Ilan Pappe
If there is anything new in the never-ending sad story of Palestine it is the clear shift in public opinion in the UK. I remember coming to these isles in 1980 when supporting the Palestinian cause was confined to the left and in it to a very particular section and ideological stream. The post-Holocaust trauma and guilt complex, military and economic interests and the charade of Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East all played a role in providing immunity for the State of Israel. Very few were moved, so it seems, by a state that had dispossessed half of Palestine's native population, demolished half of their villages and towns, discriminated against the minority among them who lived within its borders through an apartheid system and divided into enclaves two million and a half of them in a harsh and oppressive military occupation.
http://sabbah. biz/mt/archives/ 2009/06/24/ the-necessity- of-cultural- boycott/
Willy Wonka Goes to Washington—Part II
Last week, we blogged about our unsuccessful Willy Wonka-esque attempt to get into the FY2010 budget "mark-up" of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs to see if there was any discussion about conditioning President Obama's budget request for $2..775 billion in military aid to Israel.
http://endtheoccupa tionblog. blogspot. com/2009/ 06/willy- wonka-goes- to-washingtonpar t-ii.html
From Bil'in: "We refuse to die in silence."
A world-class drama is unfolding in Canada. The Palestinian village of Bil'in is taking two Quebec-based corporations, Green Park International and Green Mount International to court on charges that they are committing war crimes by building on Bil'in farmland as agents of Israel for the illegal settlement of Modi'in Illit. The corporations, assumed to be shell corporations located in Quebec for tax reasons, have been trying to stave off this case by procedural ploys -- including a challenge to the jurisdiction that will take place in the Montreal Courthouse on June 22, 2009. Mohammad Khatib, a Bil'in leader, the Israeli lawyer, Emily Schaeffer, and the Canadian lawyer, Mark Arnold, are traveling across Canada to explain the significance of this case and to raise funds for the court costs.
http://inpalestine. blogspot. com/2009/ 06/from-bilin- we-refuse- to-die-in- silence.html
Balearic Government Spends €300,000 in Pro-Palestinian Comic Book
The comic book was edited along with teaching pamphlets to promote the "Palestinian cause" among local teenagers and youngsters. It was a project of the Conselleria d'Afers Socials (Balearic social affairs ministry) that came to life after the demonstrations against Israel's attacks on Gaza last December and January. According to the Balearic Government, the main purpose of this project is to make local youngsters aware of the Palestinian- Israeli conflict and to promote cooperation and work for peace. Of the 5,000 printed comics, 4,000 will be distributed for free in education centres around the archipelago. The other 1,000 will be sold at the Barcelona International Comic Fair. The benefits of these sales will be distributed among different NGO's working in Palestine.
http://jta.org/ news/article/ 2009/06/24/ 1006107/balearic governmentspends 300000inpropales tiniancomicbook
International Conference: "Experiences of unification and rejuvenation of the left in Palestine and worldwide"
***For updates about the conference proceedings, see: tayyar-internationa lconference. blogspot. com*** On June 26 – 28, the Palestinian National Democratic Progressive Movement (PNDM - Tayyar) will hold a three-day-conferenc e on `Experiences of uniting the left in Palestine and the world` at the meeting hall of the Palestinian Red Crescent in Al-Bireh (Ramallah) and in Gaza.
http://stopthewall. org/latestnews/ 1995.shtml
Boycotting the Israeli academy
Israel's ongoing siege of Gaza has provoked an international outcry and organizing in support of Palestinian rights. Among the responses is a movement for boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) to pressure Israel in a variety of ways. This strategy takes as its inspiration the international movement to end apartheid in South Africa.
http://socialistwor ker.org/2009/ 06/25/boycotting -the-israeli- academy
Restrictions on Palestinian Media
Audio: A reporter tries to buy new equipment in Gaza
In late 2008, I needed to replace my old recording equipment that had poor sound quality and purchase a new audio recorder. Unfortunately, with the ongoing Israeli siege, this simple task of obtaining a new recorder was nearly impossible. The following audio diary tells the story of my efforts to receive a new audio recorder from the US so that I could continue documenting the many untold stories of the people of Gaza. Rami Almeghari writes from the Gaza Strip.
http://electronicin tifada.net/ v2/article10619. shtml
Western Hypocrisy
Selective Sympathy for Iran
"There was no campaign to use Twitter as a tool to protest the killings and defend the Gazans right to live."
http://www.blackage ndareport. com/?q=content/ freedom-rider- selective- sympathy- iran
Committee to Protect Certain Journalists Only
I have been receiving almost hourly bulletins about the persecution of journalists in Iran. This deserves coverage and condemnation of course. But in the same few days, the PA's armed goons have been arresting (or kidnapping is more like it) Palestinian journalists who don't follow orders of Dahlan. The kidnapping of Sari Sammur is only a most recent example.
http://angryarab. blogspot. com/2009/ 06/committee- to-protect- certain.html
Death on camera
Attention: disturbing content ahead. The following video, which probably half the world has seen, captures the death on camera of young Iranian woman killed while non-violently protesting for her rights.. CNN broadcasted it. It a "symbol." The [other] video on the other hand, is of the death on camera of Bassem Abu Rameh, a young Palestinian non-violent protester, near the apartheid wall that cuts into Bil'in. It wasn't broadcast on CNN. It is not a "symbol."
http://jewssansfron tieres.blogspot. com/2009/ 06/death- on-camera. html
Brutal
"Iranian officials stepped up efforts to crush the remaining resistance to a disputed presidential election on Wednesday, as security forces overwhelmed a small group of protesters with brutal beatings, tear gas and gunshots in the air." Notice that when Western media approve of certain demonstrations or movements, they allow themselves to insert editorial labels and comments into the text of the article itself. I mean, the New York Times would never describe regular Israeli shooting at demonstrators as brutal. What gives? [end]
http://angryarab. blogspot. com/2009/ 06/brutal. html
Zizek Rule
This is Zizek Rule: When Iranian demonstrates against their government, it is good Islam: "And, last but not least, what this means is that there is a genuine liberating potential in Islam – to find a "good" Islam, one doesn't have to go back to the 10th century, we have it right here, in front of our eyes." But when Palestinian demonstrates against the Israeli occupation, it is bad Islam. Did you get that? Write it down for future purposes. [end]
http://angryarab. blogspot. .com/2009/ 06/zizek- rule.html
Happens everywhere
"Egypt's National Council for Women, which should by all rights be addressing these issues, is in denial. Mohamed Nasef, a spokesman for the organization, says reports are "exaggerated, " but also that harassment "happens everywhere." " I mean, he is right of course, that it happens everywhere. But why do Western media care about harassment in Egypt more than they care about harassment in the US. Just as they cover "honor crimes" in Jordan, but ignore the 24 women who are killed EVERY WEEK in the US by jealous boyfriends or husbands.
http://angryarab. blogspot. com/2009/ 06/happens- everywhere. html
Analysis/Op- ed
The end of Zionism
If these dangerous processes continue and even intensify, Israeli society will move from A.D. Gordon's system of labor to the charitable support system of the pre-state Jewish community, and from "the people's army" to a French-style foreign legion.. That will bring us to the complete reversal of the Zionist revolution - and perhaps even to the end of the Zionist state.
http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/883868. html
"There Was No Single Year We Didn't Face Racism"
Reflections of an Arab of 1948 Palestine Living in Israel: In an interview conducted by Isma'il Kushkush in Geneva, Mohammed Zeidan, Director of the Arab Association for Human Rights working in the 1948 Palestine, used the words below to describe the life of Arab Palestinians inside Israel.
http://www.islamonl ine.net/servlet/ Satellite? c=Article_ C&cid=1243825142870&pagename=Zone- English-Muslim_
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Is Lieberman's plan of gerrymandering a Palestinian Arab state gaining traction in D.C.?
David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy is an important member of the Israel lobby. He wrote a book on the "peace process" lately with the Holy Avatar of the lobby, Dennis Ross. The avatar has lately been given enhanced powers in the Obama Administration for the simple undeniable reason that in order to do anything in Israel/Palestine, Obama must truck with the Israel lobby, not defy it.
http://www.philipwe iss.org/mondowei ss/2009/06/ david-makovsky- of-the-washingto n-institute- seems-to- be-endorsing
-the-avigdor- lieberman- plan-give- the-palestinians -a-state- wi.html
'George Costanza' offers humor as solution for Mideast peace
Jason Alexander, who spent nine years playing ambiguously Jewish George Costanza on Seinfeld, told a crowd in Jerusalem on Wednesday that the search for an Israeli-Palestinian solution and the show about nothing that launched him to fame have one thing in common - neither seemed destined to succeed.
http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/1095352. html
Israeli Left Fails at Logic, By Belen Fernandez
In a June 24 article on the Haaretz website entitled 'Leave the settlers there,' opinion writer Yair Sheleg condemns the Israeli left for comparing Jewish settlers to Hamas. According to Sheleg, the comparison is "based on the following logic: The Israeli majority is the equivalent of the Palestine Liberation Organization, which recognized Israel and is willing to make peace with it, while the settlers are equivalent to Hamas in their refusal."
http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=15233
Carlos Latuff cartoon
http://palestinethi nktank.com/ 2009/06/24/ cartoon-of- the-day-110/
Iraq
Bomb kills 61 in Baghdad's Sadr City
BAGHDAD, June 24 (Reuters) - A bomb killed 61 people on Wednesday at a market in eastern Baghdad's volatile Sadr City slum, police said, six days before U.S. combat troops are due to withdraw from Iraqi towns and cities.
http://www.alertnet .org/thenews/ newsdesk/ LO579481. htm
Four Iraqi police killed near Fallujah
AFP - Four Iraqi policemen were killed on Thursday in two separate incidents near the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, west of the capital, police officials told AFP.
http://news. yahoo.com/ s/afp/20090625/ wl_mideast_ afp/iraqunrestfa llujah
Police say bomb kills 7 in southwest Baghdad
AP - A bombing at a bus station in a Shiite neighborhood in southwest Baghdad on Thursday killed at least seven people and wounded 31 others, police said, the latest in a series of deadly attacks ahead of a U.S. military withdrawal from cities next week.
http://news. yahoo.com/ s/ap/20090625/ ap_on_re_ mi_ea/ml_ iraq
Wednesday: 32 Iraqis Killed, 157 Wounded
Updated at 2:21 p.m. EDT, June 24, 2009 At least 62 Iraqis were killed and 157 more were wounded in the latest attacks. No Coalition deaths were reported. Meanwhile, an Iraqi girl who was blinded and disfigured in a 2006 Sadr City bombing has returned home to Iraq following reconstructive surgery in London.
http://original. antiwar.com/ updates/2009/ 06/24/wednesday- 5-iraqis- killed-31- wounded/
Iraq PM slams cleric's death calls
AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Thursday criticised Arab and Muslim countries for their silence on calls by a senior Saudi cleric for Shiite scholars to be killed.
http://news. yahoo.com/ s/afp/20090625/ wl_mideast_ afp/iraqunrestre ligionmalikiisla m
In Iraq, a Different Struggle for Power, by Anthony Shadid
BAQUBAH, Iraq -- At 11 a.m. one day in May, eight Iraqi army Humvees barreled into government headquarters of fractious Diyala province, clouds of dust billowing behind them. They had orders to arrest a council member who belonged to a party that had run afoul of Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq's increasingly assertive prime minister.
http://www.washingt onpost.com/ wp-dyn/content/ article/2009/ 06/24/AR20090624 03497.html? wprss=rss_ world/mideast
Stabilizing Iraq: Why Mosul is a special case
The fatal shooting of a young man on a crowded downtown street illustrates why Americans could have trouble completely leaving this troubled provincial capital.
http://www.csmonito r.com/2009/ 0624/p06s17- wome.html
Iraqi's sweet sorrow: Bomb sniffers detect his perfume (McClatchy Newspapers)
McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD It would be futile to try to pinpoint the person in Baghdad who's suffered the most during six years of war and sectarian violence.
http://news. yahoo.com/ s/mcclatchy/ 20090624/ wl_mcclatchy/ 3259391
Iran
8 Basijis shot dead during Tehran unrest
Twenty people including, eight Basij members, have been killed during the post-election unrest in Tehran, Iranian officials say. All the Basij members were killed by gunfire, indicating that there were gunmen fomenting unrest among protesters, the officials said.
http://www.presstv. ir/detail. .aspx?id= 98984
Iran university professors 'held'
Scores of professors taken away after meeting opposition leader, newspaper says.
http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ middleeast/ 2009/06/20096253 3640849336. html
Now Mousavi's family feels force of crackdown
There were fears last night that the wife of Iran's opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi had been arrested after a defiant statement that protesters should not buckle despite being in a situation she likened to martial law.
http://www.independ ent.co.uk/ news/world/ middle-east/ now-mousavis- family-feels- force-of- crackdown- 1718051.html
Iran TV: partial vote recount verifies election result
TEHRAN, June 24 (Reuters) - Iranian state television said on Wednesday a partial recount of the vote in the country's disputed June 12 presidential election had verified the result.
http://www.. alertnet. org/thenews/ newsdesk/ DAH456610. htm
Baharestan Square, Tehran, 24 June 2009
Basiji are beaten by the people in Iran
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=mLksmi_ 0iwg
Tehran 3 Tir June 24th
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=ETICRjCzetE
3 Tir Baharestan (Tehran) 4:30pm June 24 2009
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=9VWGfxtxfu0
Tehran Protests Turn Into "Bloodbath"
"It turned into a bloodbath ... they threw some people off the bridges....after the Basijis came, they began to use tear gas, sticks and shooting," he said.
http://www.. cbsnews.com/ stories/2009/ 06/24/world/ main5110028. shtml?tag= stack
Report: Iran minister says CIA funding 'rioters'
Iran's interior minister on Wednesday accused US spy agency the CIA of helping to fund "rioters", stepping up accusations of Western involvement in street unrest following the country's disputed election.
http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 3736430,00. html
Neda Soltan's family 'forced out of home' by Iranian authorities
Parents of young woman shot dead near protests are banned from mourning and funeral is canceled, neighbors say.
http://www.guardian .co.uk/world/ 2009/jun/ 24/neda-soltan- iran-family- forced-out
Iran protest map
Watch protest footage filmed by people of Tehran.
http://news. bbc.co.uk/ go/rss/-/ 2/hi/middle_ east/8117054. stm
'This was a massacre. You should stop this. You should help the people of Iran.'
CNN's Ivan Watson was left dumbfounded on Wednesday during an interview with an unnamed eyewitness in Iran who told the news network that security forces mercilessly beat protesters. The woman, whose identity CNN chose to keep secret for fear of reprisal by the Iranian government, also said she believed security forces had fired into a crowd. "The black-clad police, they stopped everyone, they emptied the buses that were taking people [to the protests] … and then all of a sudden some 500 people with clubs and boots [came out of a mosque] and they poured into the street and they started beating everyone," the eyewitness said.
http://rawstory. com/08/news/ 2009/06/24/ security- forces-beat- people-like- animals/
The Ahmadinajad Matter
Last night, just before I went to sleep, I saw a Facebook group (with hundreds of supporters) pledging support for Ahmadinajad. It mostly set up and supported by Arabs, some of whom are on my Facebook list of friends. I was naturally annoyed. I mean, supporting Ahmadinajad on sunny days is objectionable but supporting him now is rather most disturbing if not digusting. When they support Ahmadinajad now, are they not supporting the shooting at demonstrators? I worry that this issue is really going to create a rift between not only Arab left and Iranian left but between Iranians and Arabs generally. And let us remember that Ahmadinajad' s rhetoric on Palestine has been a gift to Zionist propaganda and MEMRI would live to just transcribe and translate his lousy speeches. But Ahmadinajad' s rhetoric--I hear from Iranians--has been also hurting the Palestinian cause among Iranians.
http://angryarab. blogspot. com/2009/ 06/ahmadinajad- matter.html
Arab attitudes to Ahmadinajad
The position of Arab intellectual and public sympathy for Ahmadinajad needs to be explained (not justified). It is not that Arabs like Ahdmadinajad per se: but they really hate his enemies so much that they make the choice. The fact that Ahmadinajad' s enemies are the regimes of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan, not to mention Israel and the US, endears him to many Arabs. Having said that: I personally don't trust the Iranian regime on the question of Palestine. Remember that it dealt with Israel during the Iran-Iraq war. And if there is one that I distrust and despise most, it is Rafsanjani-- who one should remember is the fruit of the Iranian regime itself. If the regime was not corrupt at it core, a Rafsanjani would not have emerged. The genuine Iranian reform movement (and I am not talking about the Allahu Akbar crowd of Mousavi) needs to distance itself from Rafsanjani, just as the Syrian opposition movement (finally) distanced itself from `Abdul-Halim Khaddam. By the way, it is hilarious when Zizek dismisses talk about Ahmadinajad as a leftist (and I of course agree because Ahmadinajad and the Islamic regime don't deserve the label of the left), and then implies that Mousavi or Rafsanjani are leftists. In sum, Neither Ahmadinajad, nor Mousavi or Rafsanjani. Chant after me NOW. [end]
http://angryarab. blogspot. com/2009/ 06/arab-attitude s-to-ahmadinajad .html
Arab countries: Is Iran's unrest an opportunity or a threat?
If the mass protests in Iran succeed in bringing about change, it could produce a better neighbor – but also set a dangerous precedent for oppressive regimes.
http://www.csmonito r.com/2009/ 0625/p06s01- wome.html
Will Iran's turmoil change the Middle East?
The Islamic republic is unlikely to change its foreign policy or nuclear program, no matter who comes out on top. But the crisis could change Arab relations with the US and Iraq.
http://www.csmonito r.com/2009/ 0625/p06s04- wome.html
U.S. and other world news
U.S. to send ambassador back to Syria
President Obama has decided to send a U.S. ambassador back to Syria, a dramatic sign of reconciliation between the two countries, senior administration officials tell CNN. The announcement is expected to be made this week.
http://edition. cnn.com/2009/ POLITICS/ 06/23/US. syria.ambassador /index.html? eref=edition_ world
The Story of Abdul Rahim al-Ginco, By ANDY WORTHINGTON
In over three years of researching and reporting about the prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, I learned early on to expect, as one of Guantánamo's first commanders, Maj. Gen. Michael Dunlavey explained, that many of the men were "Mickey Mouse" prisoners, with no connection to terrorism whatsoever, and, in hundreds of cases, not even a tangential involvement in the Taliban's inter-Muslim civil war with Afghanistan's Northern Alliance, which preceded the 9/11 attacks, but morphed into a war against the U.S. after "Operation Enduring Freedom" -- the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan -- began on October 7, 2001
http://www.counterp unch..org/ worthington06242 009.html
CIA and Assassinations: The Guatemala 1954 Documents
These documents, including an instructional guide on assassination found among the training files of the CIA's covert "Operation PBSUCCESS," were among several hundred records released by the Agency on May 23, 1997 on its involvement in the infamous 1954 coup in Guatemala.
http://www.gwu. edu/%7Ensarchiv/ NSAEBB/NSAEBB4/ index.html
A tale of two parties | Brian Whitaker
While 69 revelling Filipinos face prison and flogging in Saudi Arabia, wealthy British expatriates are left to party in peace. Hot on the heels of the gay night out in Saudi Arabia that ended disastrously in the arrest of 69 Filipinos comes word of some more "offensive" partying by foreigners – this time stalwarts of Riyadh's expatriate English community, including the British ambassador himself.
http://www.guardian .co.uk/commentis free/belief/ 2009/jun/ 25/saudi- arabia-party- filipino
Breakthrough? Saudi women train to sell lingerie
Using colorful bras donated by employees at Victoria's Secret, a group of 26 mostly Saudi women completed the first course of its kind to be offered in the kingdom — how to fit, stock and sell underwear — a training organisers hope will help boost a campaign to lift the ban on women selling underwear in the kingdom.
http://www.independ ent.co.uk/ news/world/ middle-east/ breakthrough- saudi-women- train-to- sell-lingerie- 1717567.html
Jazzing up the abaya
Few images shout Middle East quite like the abaya - the long, black overgarment worn by millions of women across the Arab world.
http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/middle_ east/8117185. stm
Whitening Power: Colonialism in a Bottle
We have a visitor from Ramallah; my sister-in-law to be exact. Tucked away in her truly and surprisingly minimal luggage is a host of skin care and other cosmetic products. This morning, one of them caught my eye: "Herbal Formulas Hollywood Style Night Whitening Cream." It is the "Professional Formula."
http://www.kabobfes t.com/2009/ 06/whitening- power-colonialis m-in-a-bottle. html
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