Feeding frustration
Salah Al-Bardweil
The evening gathering of Al-Hamaydeh clan in the central Gaza Strip’s Deir Al-Balah City broke up late on Thursday. The clan members who meet every week had been exchanging jokes and had found commentary on the failure of the most recent dialogue talks between Fatah and Hamas to be a source of entertainment. Salim Al-Hamaydeh, who works in trade, says that Palestinians no longer trust the seriousness of the faction representatives in reaching an agreement. “The dialogue has turned int o a source of popular jest, for what is taking place is beyond the bounds of sound reason,” he told Al-Ahram Weekly. “The faction leaders are busying themselves talking about the government and elections and the electoral system at a time when tens of thousands of people in Gaza don’t have shelter, at a time when Palestinians in the West Bank are caught in a wide-scale war in which Israel is taking control of their land and property,” he added. This clan’s joking reflects the frustration of Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since the most recent Cairo dialogue round between Fatah and Hamas failed…
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Action Alert: U.S. Weapons Delivered to Israel as Tax Day Nears
US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
…1. Contact President Obama to protest U.S. munitions deliveries to Israel and urge him to hold Israel accountable for its violations of the Arms Export Control Act. 2. Offset your tax-dollars to Israeli military occupation by making a tax-deductible contribution to us. Whether you like it or not, if you pay taxes then you’re supporting Israeli military occupation. Offset your tax contribution to Israeli military oc cupation of $17.75 and those of others by making a tax-deductible contribution to help us continue our important educational and organizing work to challenge U.S. military to Israel…
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Israel’s Key Vulnerability
Paul Grenville
…Israel’s key vulnerability lies in its being a trading state with a highly skilled workforce but few natural resources. The boycott of Israeli products, coupled with divestment in Israeli companies and a cultural embargo has to be a key way of supporting the Islamic and secular Palestinian resistance (PFLP), as well as a way of applying pressure to the Zionist establishment to moderate its penchant for atrocities, encouraging dissent within Israel and the deepening of existing fissures within Israeli society. If an international boycott can be linked to the issue of the Right of Return for the Palestinians and the cancellation of the Jewish Right of Return, an uncontroversial strategic goal in support of the Palestinians can be flagged up for the movement…
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Israeli Passover restrictions prevent hundreds from reaching Jerusalem for prayer
Ma’an news
Hundreds of Palestinian Muslims and Christians were prevented from reaching Jerusalem Friday as Israeli border guards continue to impose a strict “security closure” of the West Bank during Passover. Muslims heading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque for Friday prayers and Christians wishing to worship at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where Jesus is said to have been buried following his crucifiction, in Jerusalem were turned away from Isra eli checkpoints…
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Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory No. 14/2009 (02 – 08 April 2009)
PCHR – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
During the reporting period, IOF killed two activists of the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip and one civilian in the West Bank. They also wounded 16 Palestinian civilians, including two children and two journalists, in the West Bank. Three of these civilians were wounded by Israeli settlers in a joint attack with IOF. In the Gaza Strip, on 04 April 20 09, IOF killed two members of the ‘Izziddin al-Qassam Brigades (the armed wing of Hamas) near the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel. IOF also fired artillery shells at the ambulance that attempted to evacuate the bodies from the area. In the West Bank, on 07 April 2009, IOF shot dead a Palestinian civilian in Sour Baher village, south of Jerusalem, claiming that he ran down three Israeli soldiers…
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some days you get shot at
Eva Bartlett | In Gaza
In the “buffer zone”, created and expanded by Israel [the now 1 or 2 km band of land running along on Gaza's side of the border, from south to north and northeast to northwest], it is literally hit and miss whether farmers and civilians will be maimed or killed by the Israeli army on any given day. On April 5th, farmers harvesting lentils in Khoza’a were, surprisingly, not shot at. Two Israeli jeeps lingered an uncomfortably long time, honking and flashing their headligh ts at the farmers. We were able to stand with the farmers as they swiftly swept the land clean of lentil stocks…
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Russia in unprecedented Israeli drones purchase
AFP
Russia has concluded a contract with an Israeli firm for the sale of drones, a defence official said on Friday, in Moscow’s first purchase of military hardware from the Jewish state. “We have concluded a contract with an Israeli firm on supplying Russia with several drones,” Russian Deputy Defence Minister Vladimir Popovkin said after returning from a trip to Israel, quoted by Russian news agencies. The minister did not name the Israeli company, but press reports have id entified it as Israel Aerospace Industries and put the value of the deal at 50 million dollars (37 million euros)…
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Obama seeks $83bn more for US wars
AlJazeera.net
The US president has asked congress for $83.4bn for military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Barack Obama said 95 per cent of the money he was requesting would go to support US military operations in Iraq and the effort to defeat al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan…
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