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Tony Karon, one of the few journalists in the mainstream media who writes sensibly and intelligently about Palestine/Israel, has an interesting article on the “peace process” over at Time. According to Karon, Abbas believes that one of Netanyahu’s demands will be that the “… ‘framework agreement’ reached in the current ... [Link] [Cache]

Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada, 4 October 2010 Controversy has arisen after Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s comments to the United Nations’ General Assembly on 28 September. During his address the leader of the ultra-right wing Yisrael Beiteinu party outlined his proposal for a “population and territory swap” in the ... [Link] [Cache]

This 2008 YouTube video documenting a deranged IDF soldier belly-dancing in front of a blind-folded, bound Palestinian woman shows that the Israeli army definitely needs to exploit such branding opportunities and create a YouTube channel featuring more of such distinctive aberrant behavior. Though I err is saying the behavior is ... [Link] [Cache]

" Our officials also know that Israeli military systems captured by the Syrians or Lebanese during various clashes were quickly handed over to Moscow. ....After Russia approved the sale of its Yakhont missiles to Syria, some questions emerged in Israel that should have emerged much earlier. Indeed, the enthusiasm shown ... [Link] [Cache]

YouTube clip shows IDF soldier belly-dancing beside bound Palestinian woman - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News [Link] [Cache]

ShareThisIDF soldiers convicted of using 11-year-old as human shield in Gaza 03 Oct 2010 The southern command military court convicted two Israeli soldiers on Sunday of using human shields during Operation Cast Lead, Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip, in the winter of 2008-2009. The soldiers were convicted of offenses ... [Link] [Cache]

link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martin-varsavsky/why-the-majority-of-mus~ Martin Varsavsky Tech Entrepreneur, Professor at IE Posted: October 4, 2010 07:05 AM Why Do So Many Muslims Believe 9/11 Was a Conspiracy? This morning I read that a great number of Muslims believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy created by the US government to justify the invasion ... [Link] [Cache]

Nobel Peace laureate Maguire stands before the MV Rachel Corrie before sailing for Gaza AP In a ruling that should bring shock and disdain on Israeli jurisprudence throughout the world, the Supreme Court ruled that the intelligence services and Interior Ministry were right in excluding Nobel Peace laureate, Mairead Corrigan ... [Link] [Cache]

The Israeli Supreme Court has apparently decided to stand behind a deportation decision made last Tuesday at Ben Gurion Airport when Northern Ireland’s Mairead Maguire landed to attend a conference of women Nobel Peace Prize winners with Israeli and Palestinian women. Maguire had participated in three expeditions to break the ... [Link] [Cache]

Via-Friday-Lunch-Club "..... the negotiations that will determine the outcome of the latest minicrisis will be those that both parties conduct with the U.S.The Obama Administration appears to have assumed that having the two sides at the table in direct talks would somehow create self-sustaining momentum toward a peace agreement. The ... [Link] [Cache]

SourcePosted by Qifa NabkiA friend of mine, Thanassis Cambanis, has a new book out about Hizbullah. Between 2000 and 2007, Thanassis worked as a reporter for the Boston Globe, and served as the paper’s Iraq bureau chief from 2003-05 and Middle East bureau chief from 2005-07. He’s also worked for ... [Link] [Cache]

Yair Naveh: next IDF deputy chief of staff Daniel Bar On Defense Minister Ehud Barak today appointed as new IDF deputy chief of staff, Maj. Gen Yair Naveh. Naveh is notorious for ordering targeted assassinations of unarmed Palestinian militants in defiance of a Supreme Court ruling, then lying about it. ... [Link] [Cache]

"... There hasn't yet been any response from the Israeli government to the news out of this weekend's Syria-Turkey meeting, but don't expect any encouragement.It's worth adding some additional pessimism to all of this. Even when the Turkish mediated negotiations were going well, the closest Damascus and Tel Aviv ever ... [Link] [Cache]

As Israel's self-imposed and largely irrelevant settlement freeze ends, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked settlers to show "restraint." It is an interesting choice of adjective, for people who show restraint are the injured and outraged; they are victims who although entitled to a full measure of justice settle ... [Link] [Cache]

From Rabble: “It is a matter of instinct and conscience,” writes Costello, in an open letter on the cancelation of a concert in Israel this summer. “There are occasions when merely having your name added to a concert schedule may be interpreted as a political act that resonates more than ... [Link] [Cache]

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By Stefan Christoff | October 4, 2010 Artists play a galvanizing role in shaping popular opinion on the defining issues of our time. Historic struggles for justice are often remembered at a grassroots level not by campaign slogans or political speeches but via artistic symbols. Art can capture both the ... [Link] [Cache]

PRESS RELEASEPalestinian Public Opinion Poll No 37 After Israeli Return to Settlement Construction: Two Thirds of the Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip Want the Palestinian Side to Pull Out of the Direct Talks30 September- 02 October 2010 These are the results of the latest poll conducted ... [Link] [Cache]

Dear OECD Officials, As Israeli citizens, we are concerned by the policies of the Israeli governments, policies which violate international law, violate the basic human rights of Palestinians under occupation and serve to instigate instability, violence and suffering in the Middle East. We are also concerned by the double standards ... [Link] [Cache]

Occupied Palestine, October 4th 2010 - The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee BNC , on behalf of its constituent organizations and unions representing the majority of Palestinian civil society, calls upon the US non-profit pension fund TIAA-CREF to live up to its motto of providing “Financial Services for ... [Link] [Cache]

Via silver LiningPosted on October 4, 2010 by realistic bird by Hasan Idelbiby Jonathan Cook, sourceBenjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, has insisted from the launch of the current peace talks that the Palestinians set no preconditions, while making his own precondition the centerpiece of negotiations. Netanyahu has said talks are ... [Link] [Cache]

Nora Barrows-Friedman reports on the response of Palestinian citizens of Israel to the Israeli Foreign Minister's plan proposed to the United Nations to strip Palestinians of their Israeli citizenship. [Link] [Cache]

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From Ynet, quoting Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli Foreign Minister:"During my recent visit to the US I learned that Washington is planning to force a permanent agreement on Israel – two states for two peoples along the 1967 borders, plus-minus 3 or 4% of the territory exchanged," Lieberman said. "This is ... [Link] [Cache]

In the National Interest, Paul Pillar, former CIA analyst, looks at the recent Indian judicial ruling on the Ayodhya site, sharing it between Muslims and Hindus, for both of whom it is holy, as a departure point for a meditation on Why Israel, unlike India, is so intolerant of its ... [Link] [Cache]

[ 04/10/2010 - 10:41 AM ] DUBAI, PIC -- Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim, commander of the Dubai police, said the case of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh will not be closed unless those involved are arrested or dead, warning of the possibility of more similar Mossad operations.Khalfan said in a ... [Link] [Cache]

"... author, Odd Karsten Tveit, covered the Middle East for many years and served in the United Nations Interim Force inLebanon, whose members – according to the book "Goodbye Lebanon – Israel's First Defeat", helped the prisoners escape from the al-Khaim Prison in southern Lebanon. The incident took place in ... [Link] [Cache]

Last week Rich Siegel, a New Jersey musician, resigned from his union local, the Associated Musicians of Greater New York, in part over its failure to publish letters critical of the Israeli occupation in its members' magazine, Allegro. He lately learned that Allegro wouldn't print his resignation letter. So Siegel ... [Link] [Cache]

"..... the negotiations that will determine the outcome of the latest minicrisis will be those that both parties conduct with the U.S.The Obama Administration appears to have assumed that having the two sides at the table in direct talks would somehow create self-sustaining momentum toward a peace agreement. The President ... [Link] [Cache]

And more news from Today in Palestine: [if gte mso 9]>--> Land/Property/Resource Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Settlers blamed for mosque blaze Prayer rugs and Quran copies burnt in a West Bank mosque, in fire said to have been started by Israeli settlers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocrCzco0Z5g&feature=youtube_gdata Settlers Torch Mosque, Copies of the Holy ... [Link] [Cache]