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Please ‘Bookmark’ this page and watch at your leisure….. On March 1, the premier episode of a 90 part series, “Sleepless in Gaza…and Jerusalem” was launched on YouTube, and there are now eight episodes online. The video diary chronicles the lives of four young Palestinian women, Muslim and Christian, two ... [Link] [Cache]

I like to feature these, because they make the mechanics of disinformation so obvious – RB Gates clarifies US Iran policy in Riyadh after Biden fails in Israel DEBKAfile, Mar 10, 2010 US Def Sec Gates arrived in Riyadh on Mar 10, flying in unexpectedly from Kabul in Afghanistan, after ... [Link] [Cache]

Police to let far-rightists march in East Jerusalem Liel Kyzer, Haaretz, Mar 12 2010 Jerusalem Police on Thursday agreed to let dozens of far-rightists march through an Arab village in East Jerusalem. The activists, led by Baruch Marzel and Itamar Ben-Gvir, had requested to demonstrate in Silwan to protest illegal ... [Link] [Cache]

'Mossad-mania' continued in Israel this week when a supermarket chain filmed a television commercial inspired by the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai by a 27-strong hit squad. The commercials for the Mahsaney Kimat Hinam Almost Free Warehouse supermarket chain shows actors carrying tennis rackets, and wearing hats, glasses ... [Link] [Cache]

Some 50,000 new housing units in Jerusalem neighborhoods beyond the Green Line are in various stages of planning and approval, planning officials told Haaretz. They said Jerusalem's construction plans for the next few years, even decades, are expected to focus on East Jerusalem. [Link] [Cache]

Phon van den Biesen and Adri Nieuwhof, [Electronic Intifada], 10 March 2010 - On 25 February, the European Court of Justice ruled that imports manufactured in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank shouldn't benefit from a trade agreement between Israel and the European Union. read more [Link] [Cache]

PIC[ 11/03/2010 - 02:08 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, PIC -- Palestinian sources in occupied Jerusalem said that the Israeli occupation authorities IOA started to distribute official invitations for the opening of a synagogue at the heart of the Aqsa Mosque on March 16.The sources added that the IOA is making ... [Link] [Cache]

Via Friday-Lunch-Club Politico/ here An Israeli reader relays the "4-5 important points" from Biden's speech to the Israeli people from Tel Aviv University today, with a few annotations:* The U.S. will not allow a nuclear Iran. Period what constitutes "nuclear"? is "threshold" tolerable? * Obama is committed to Israel's security ... [Link] [Cache]

Al-Manar11/03/2010 Once again, the United States did its best to confirm its "strategic alliance" with the Zionist entity…Once again, the United States raised the voice to tell the whole world that the Israeli enemy is not only its favorite ally but even more…Thus, US Vice President Joe Biden didn't hesitate ... [Link] [Cache]

Clinton to address AIPAC JTA, Mar 11 2010 Sec State Clinton will be the keynote speaker at the annual AIPAC policy conference. Clinton will speak on the second day of the conference, which is set for Mar 21-23 in Washington. The announcement this week of her address at the conference ... [Link] [Cache]

Kawther SalamThis image shows three Egyptian police officers and a female tourist. One of the policemen is trying to get an up-skirt shot of the tourist. The picture says much about Egypt after three decades under Mubarak, three decades under a regime which stays in power due to massive financial ... [Link] [Cache]

Analysis: US hamstrung on Israeli settlements Steven R Hurst, AP, Mar 11 2010 A year ago, Obama boldly, unequivocally demanded that Israel stop building settlements on the West Bank and east Jerusalem. Today he’s left with little choice but to swallow a stinging and very public rebuke from the USA’s ... [Link] [Cache]

Biden’s Visit to Israel Ends with Resentment, Embarrassment Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com, Mar 11 2010 The Obama Administration was supposed to be flying high this week on news that the Israel-Palestinian peace process had finally been restarted in the form of indirect talks brokered by the US. Even the Arab League ... [Link] [Cache]

By YOSSI SARID Don't believe Benjamin Netanyahu for one moment when he says he "never knew." The Jerusalem planning committee is only too aware of what the bosses want, and the government has decided to step up construction in greater Jerusalem. Dispossession and taking possession, kicking out and moving in ... [Link] [Cache]

Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas listens to US Vice President Joe Biden at a press conference in Ramallah on Wednesday 10 March. Biden condemned Israeli plans to build an additional 1,600 settler homes in occupied East Jerusalem but insisted that indirect US-brokered peace talks should proceed ... [Link] [Cache]

Phon van den Biesen and Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada On 25 February, the European Court of Justice ruled that imports manufactured in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank shouldn't benefit from a trade agreement between Israel and the European Union. The ruling follows protests of Israel's export of ... [Link] [Cache]

By ADDAMEER PRISONER SUPPORT and HUMAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATIONPress Release: International Women’s Day 2010Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association marks International Women’s Day 2010 by honoring, commemorating and saluting Palestinian women political prisoners and detainees in their steadfast resistance against Israeli colonial occupation and struggle towards securing the right of ... [Link] [Cache]

By Dr. Alan Sabrosky*Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu once remarked to a Likud gathering that "Israel is not like other countries." Oddly enough for him, that time he was telling the truth, and nowhere is that more evident than with Jewish nationalism, whether or not one pins the "Zionist" label ... [Link] [Cache]

By ILAN PAPPEIn the city of Haifa, Zionist plans to create an Arab-free land through the expulsions of 1948 did not entirely succeed; the nature of the city is still ambiguous despite the deaths and destruction Le Monde diplomatique The editors of David Ben Gurion’s diaries expressed their bewilderment at ... [Link] [Cache]

By STEPHEN LENDMANAs an isolated incident, it would be appalling and criminal. As a regular occurrence, it's state-sponsored terrorism against defenseless children, subjected to barbarism by Israeli soldiers committing crimes against humanity to crush their will for wanting to live free on their own land - what Westerners take for ... [Link] [Cache]

Briton tells court of the moment he saw American activist fall as she tried to defend Palestinian homes By Donald Macintyre in HaifaThe final moments of Rachel Corrie, the American peace activist crushed to death beneath a pile of earth and rubble in the path of an advancing Israeli army ... [Link] [Cache]

By Jonathan Cook - NazarethSeven years after Rachel Corrie, a US peace activist, was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza, her family was to put the Israeli government in the dock today.A judge in the northern Israeli city of Haifa was due to be presented with evidence that ... [Link] [Cache]

By Samah Sabawi In 2008 Netanyahu announced during his election campaign that he plans to 'weave an economic peace alongside the political process which will give a stake in peace for the moderate elements in the Palestinian society'. 1 Since its election, the Netanyahu government has made “economic peace” central ... [Link] [Cache]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacked Israel on Thursday, asserting that it is the most hated regime in the world. Israel, he said, was established on lies, is losing the support of the West and would soon disappear.Ahmadinejad made his attack during a speech at the port town of Bandar-Abbas which ... [Link] [Cache]

Once again, the United States did its best to confirm its "strategic alliance" with the Zionist entity…Once again, the United States raised the voice to tell the whole world that the Israeli enemy is not only its favorite ally but even more…Thus, US Vice President Joe Biden didn't hesitate to ... [Link] [Cache]

US Vice President Joe Biden, speaking at Tel Aviv University on Thursday, said that Washington has no better friend in the world than Israel.Some years ago "I said if I was Jew, I would be a Zionist," Biden said, speaking o of his affinity for Israel since childhood. "I was ... [Link] [Cache]

Lebanese President Michel Sleiman says the new Israeli scheme to build hundreds of Jewish homes in Jerusalem al-Quds shatters chances of bringing peace to the Middle East."The Israeli policy to renege on commitments and reject international demands is a sign that the belligerent enemy is either unprepared or unwilling to ... [Link] [Cache]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned Israel that initiating a new military conflict in the Middle East would not save it from downfall.Speaking in the southern Iranian Province of Hormozagan on Thursday, Ahmadinejad said that Israel was a Western prodigy that had now "reached the end of its road.""See what ... [Link] [Cache]

Several Palestinians have been injured as Israeli aircraft bomb two sites in southern Gaza Strip early Friday, the army and witnesses said. The Israeli military said it blew up a metal workshop in Khan Yunis in the early hours of Friday, injuring several people.The condition of the injured was not ... [Link] [Cache]

Stop NATO March 11, 2010 AFRICOM’s First War: U.S. Directs Large-Scale Offensive In Somalia Rick Rozoff Over 43 people have been killed in the Somali capital of Mogadishu in the past two days in fighting between Shabab al-Shabaab insurgent forces, who on March 10 advanced to within one mile of ... [Link] [Cache]