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Hamas textbooks to teach about liberation plans
Hamas has begun preparing new school textbooks that teach children about "plans to liberate Palestine and the legitimacy and various forms of resistance [against Israel]." Jamal Abu Hashem, advisor to the Hamas-controlled education ministry, said new books would be introduced as part of National Education Studies for grades 8-10.Abu Hashem was speaking during a workshop in Gaza ...
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Music Avishai Cohen — ‘Umray’
Perhaps it’s just me, but when I listen to Mr. Cohen play, it seems the music has dark overtones. Perhaps it because of where he ...
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UNICEF donates school kits to Palestinian refugees
Toulkarem School in the Palestinian camp of Burj al-Barajneh, in the presence of students, parents and teaching staff. "Education is a priority for both UNRWA and the Palestinian refugee community and this will remain so, despite the ongoing humanitarian crisis of Palestinian refugees from Syria," said Roger Davies, the deputy director of UNRWA affairs in Lebanon. Davies thanked ...
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Damascus claims it destroyed Israeli military vehicle on joint border
Israeli soldiers of the Golani brigade take part in an exercise near the border with Syria at the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty ...
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Israel Snipes warned to keep budgets lean
The budget outlook is brighter, but it's not time for a taxpayer-funded spending spree, county commissioners told the sheriff and other top county leaders Tuesday.Property tax money has started flowing back in, thanks to rising property values. But county commissioners said they still want to run the kind of lean government they pared down to during the Great Recession. And they said ...
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Prisoners who starved for art honored by Gaza show
Artwork by Palestinians in Israeli prisons is on display in Gaza governmental offices. For former Palestinian detainee Abdelfattah Abu Jahil, prison art is a victory. "At the beginning, it was really hard," he said of painting, embroidery and sculpture during his first detention by Israeli forces in 1983. "It wasn’t allowed. We had to keep it hidden from the guards. And we ...
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SF Officials Demand City Donate Money From Anti-Israel Bus Ads
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) – Several San Francisco supervisors want the city transit agency to donate revenue from an anti-Israel bus ad campaign to the city's Human Rights Commission after the agency did the same for an ad campaign that targeted Muslims. The city's Municipal Transportation Agency donated revenue made ...
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Without much effort imagine the world reaction if Jews were in the situation of the Palestinians with them having a large army building a wall of shame and forcing the people to live in ghettos Thus the boycott of Israel is valid and I agree with it
As for the Jewish people, who are always on the lookout for any news that is broadcast on international media whose intent is critical to their behavior on this sensitive issue with Palestine, they deserve to be reprimanded, yes. Without much effort, imagine the world reaction if Jews were in the situation of the Palestinians, with them having a large army, building a wall of shame, and forcing ...
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Syria Israel Trade Shots in Golan Heights
The Israeli army on Tuesday fired at a target in Syria after one of its military vehicles was hit by cross-border fire in the Golan Heights. The Syrian Army said it destroyed an Israeli military vehicle that crossed the ceasefire line in the Golan, which Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed. It was the first time since Syria's uprising erupted more than two ...
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Israel - Restrictions on movement are biggest hurdle for journalists in Israel Palestine
The International Press Institute (IPI) has called for an end to restrictions on freedom of movement for journalists working in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.In a report released by IPI today, the lack of free movement for journalists emerges as the single greatest challenge to local reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Most Palestinian journalists are unable to enter Israel, and are ...
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Israel and Mexico swap notes on abusing rights
, 8 May [Spanish]). Chiapas is home to the Zapatistas (Ejrcito Zapatista de Liberacin Nacional), a mostly indigenous Maya liberation movement that has enjoyed global grassroots support since it rose up against the Mexican government in 1994. The Zapatistas took back large tracts of land on which they have since built subsistence cooperatives, autonomous schools, collectivized clinics and other ...
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Britain asks EU to put Hezbollah military on terrorist list
Hezbollah 's military sector a terrorist organization. The request, which is scheduled to be informally discussed at an EU meeting in Brussels Wednesday, and officially taken up on June 4, could open the way for sanctions to curtail Hezbollah activity in Europe if successful, the British newspaper The Financial Times reported Tuesday. Motivated by an investigation that blamed Hezbollah ...
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ExcerptsIsrael says no vehicle destroyed in Golan. Lebanon re
Excerpts:Israel says no vehicle destroyed in Golan. Lebanon re Hezbollah in Syria May 21, 2013 +++SOURCE: The Syria Report 20 ...
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Israel warns Syria of consequences
THE head of Israel's armed forces has warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of "consequences" if fire continues from Syrian territory against Israeli troops in the occupied Golan Heights. "If he disturbs the Golan Heights, he will have to bear the consequences," Lieutenant General Benny Gantz said in an address at Haifa University broadcast on Israeli television. "We ...
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Video Gunman storms Israeli bank killing four
A gunman storms into a bank in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on Monday, killing four people and taking a hostage before killing himself, police ...
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Syrian and Israeli forces exchange fire over the Golan Heights as conflict spreads
Syrian and Israeli forces exchanged fire over the Golan Heights on Tuesday and the Lebanese militant group Hizbollah sent more reinforcements to help the Assad regime attack a key border town as the conflict spilled further to the country's ...
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How the Obama administration is trying to criminalize investigative journalism
], prosecutors were trying to build criminal cases under the 1917 Espionage Act against federal employees suspected of leaking classified information. Before President Obama took office, the Espionage Act had been used to prosecute leakers a grand total of three times, including the 1971 case of Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon ...
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ACLU lawsuit takes on FBI surveillance of news organizations including Antiwar.com
Today the ACLU sued the FBI in a freedom of the press lawsuit on behalf of two editors at a libertarian online magazine. After learning that their Bay Area-based site, Antiwar.com, was the subject of FBI surveillance, Eric Garris and Justin Raimondo sought the documents the government had compiled on both them and the site. After a year, the FBI has failed to produce any documents, so Garris and ...
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Foreign fantasies and Syria
';So many foreign fighters have joined the Syrian insurgency that one wonders if their [sic] is role left for any indigenous Syrian ...
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Why China’s riches won’t bring it freedom
Modern history is the story of how liberal democracy, originating in the U.K. and America, spread around the world. This may sound like an absurd fantasy. In actuality, this Whiggish narrative of progress underpins most newspaper editorials, political commentary and speeches in the West, and frames larger views of political developments in the non-West. It accounts for the gloomy undertone to ...
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Israel Intel Divided Over Syria
TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Israel's intelligence community has been divided over thecivil war in Syria, a report said. The Institute for National Security Studies asserted that Israel'smilitary and intelligence community was divided over the Sunni revoltagainst Syrian President Bashar Assad. In a report, the institute said manyin the community prefer that Assad remain in power rather than be ...
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Livni says stalemate harmful for Israel as Palestinian narrative gains traction
JERUSALEM // Israel's chief peace negotiator with the Palestinians said yesterday the current stalemate was harmful for Israel. Tzipi Livni told a parliamentary committee that resuming negotiations was "first and foremost an Israeli interest". She spoke days before the US secretary of state John Kerry was expected to arrive in Israel for his latest push to restart long-dormant ...
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Palestinian group Ruler rights abuses increasing
The Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights said in its annual report Tuesday that incidents of abuse are up 10 percent since last ...
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Hamas to close tunnels if Egypt will open border
Hamas said it would be willing to close all smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border upon opening of a commercial crossing, Palestinian news agency Ma'an cited Ghazi Hamad, Hamas undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as saying Tuesday. Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues Thursday by Islamist ...
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Terra Sancta Museum to Open in Jerusalem
In 2015, in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem, the Terra Sancta Museum – the only museum in the world dedicated to the roots of Christianity and the preservation of the Holy Places – will open: a permanent exhibit established by the Custody of the Holy Land to shed light on the history of this extraordinary land in which for millennia the destinies of many peoples living ...
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Palestine is a potential eco-friendly hub
Palestine, occupied Palestine, the Palestinian Territories or the Occupied Territories, call it what you will, this patch of land in the Middle East has many different name according to political opinion, but what many don’t realize about it is the ingenuity that takes place on a daily basis.
Palestine is one of the poorest regions in the world and certainly in the Middle East, the territory which is loosely made up of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, is a large refugee camp because none of the inhabitants have sovereignty and therefore do not have a centrally strong government to provide basic services. Much of the areas income is derived through donations and money earned by day laborers within Israel. Read more
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