| Recognizing Palestine's Struggle | | Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 3:12:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | As anti-war activists prepare to march on Washington, D.C. on Saturday demanding an end to the war in Iraq, one issue will be conspicuous by its absence from the agenda of the majority of groups participating: Israel's despicable oppression of Palestinians. That this issue is left out of the march is more significant than it may initially seem. After all, there are many worthy causes around the world that are not mentioned in this anti-war march. Yet, not mentioning Palestine in the antiwar movement reflects an absurd short-sightedness in dealing with the Middle East. It will doom this movement to failure if the benchmarks for its success are set to a reasonable standard beyond the myopic (and by now largely inevitable) "Bring the Troops Home." First, the moral case: if the antiwar movement opposes the war on Iraq because of moral concerns, it is baffling it would remain silent on Palestine.... | |
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| | | Blair urges US to shift focus to Israel-Palestine | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 1:08:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | British Prime Minister Tony Blair made an open plea on Monday to US President George W. Bush to recognize that a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict lies at the core of any hopes for wider peace in the Middle East, including Iraq. In his annual foreign policy speech, seen as a chance to recalibrate Britain's Iraq strategy, Blair said a solution to the conflict was central to a strategy that "pins back the forces trying to create mayhem inside Iraq." Blair, famously cautious about pressing the Republican administration in public, is trying to seize the rare indecision in Washington in response to the Democrat victories to persuade the White House to acknowledge the central importance of the Palestinian peace process. Blair is working towards a regional Middle East peace conference, but many of his advisers question whether Bush has the political will to make a renewed effort on Palestine.... | |
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| | | Palestine faulted on abuse of women | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:07:37 AM by Blog57 Team | | A new report presents an alarming picture of the abuse of women in the Palestinian territories, with police, courts and government agencies failing to treat violence such as rape and beatings as a crime. Human Rights Watch cited practices such as rape victims being forced to marry assailants and light sentences for men who kill female relatives suspected of adultery. In a report to be released today, the rights group said families, tribal leaders and authorities, backed by tradition and discriminatory laws, often sacrifice victims' interests for "family honor." And the problem is getting worse with growing poverty and lawlessness in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the New York-based group said. The report comes about a year after a Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics survey of more than 4,000 households found 23 percent of women said they experienced domestic violence, but only 1 percent had filed a complaint.... | |
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| | | Abbas eyes PLO troops in Jordan (Amy Teibel / ASSOCIATED PRESS) | | Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 11:19:17 AM by Blog57 Team | | Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas hopes to beef up his loyalist forces with Palestine Liberation Organization troops from Jordan, Palestinian officials said, as rival Palestinian factions bolstered their ranks in anticipation of a feared civil war. Israel has objected in the past to letting members of the Jordan-based Badr Brigade enter Palestinian areas. But with clashes intensifying between Mr. Abbas' Fatah Party and forces loyal to the militantly anti-Israel Hamas government, Israeli officials said they would consider allowing them in, according to the Palestinian officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because no decision had been made. Israeli authorities were not immediately available for comment yesterday.... | |
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| | | Fatah, Hamas agree to defuse internal violence | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 3:07:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | CAIRO, October 20 (Itar-Tass) - Fatah and Hamas agreed on Friday to stop violence with an aim to reach political settlement in Palestine. According to the Al Jazeera news channel, an agreement was reached between representatives of the two rival Palestinian movements at a meeting in Gaza. .... | |
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| | | Palestine Gaza blockade lift allows Palestinian team to unite | | Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 3:08:56 AM by Blog57 Team | | A trio of Palestinian internationals have joined their team for Wednesday's AFC Asian Cup qualifier against China after Israeli authorities lifted a blockade on Gaza, the Asian Football Confederation has reported. The lift of the blockade allowed skipper Saeb Jendeya, Hamada Eshbair and Ihmeidan Barrbakh to leave for match venue Amman via Cairo through the Rafah checkpoint. The three players will arrive in Amman just in time for the match late on Wednesday, according to the AFC. "It is a very difficult and long trip (from Gaza to Amman) but the joy of linking up with our team mates in the national team and try to get a good result is the source of our happiness," Jendeya said. Palestine, who drew with Iraq 2-2 in the previous round of qualifiers, have four points and are at the foot of Group E behind Singapore on goal difference.... | |
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| | | New Palestine shuts down Shelbyville running game | | Posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 7:03:45 AM by Blog57 Team | | SHELBYVILLE, Ind. -- With a chance to lock down at least a tie for the Hoosier Heritage Conference championship, New Palestine's defense put the clamps on host Shelbyville. The Dragons held a Shelbyville rushing attack that entered gaining more than 270 yards per game to just 34 and forced three turnovers in a 17-7 high school football win that guaranteed at least a tie for the HHC crown. The Dragons, 5-2 overall, improved to 5-0 in the conference with just two league games remaining. No other conference team has less than two losses. "That was the purpose this week," New Palestine coach Doug Armstrong said. "We knew if we won (Friday), we had at least a share. Our kids knew that. And our defense played extremely well. We felt we didn't tackle very well against Yorktown last week, and we spent a lot of time on the fundamentals in practice.... | |
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| | | Vicki Rossi Interviews Peace Activist in Palestine Ina'am Al ... | | Posted Sunday, September 24, 2006 1:09:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Shu'fat refugee camp is located 4 km from Jerusalem. This camp was originally founded in 1965-66 by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Shufat camp is 1 square kilometre and is home to around 22,000 people. It is surrounded by Jewish settlements. After the war in 1967 many new refugees came to the camp putting added pressure on the already precarious social and sanitary conditions there. Inam Wahidi works in the Shufat refugee camp as a programme coordinator for Centri Rousseau. Since 2002, Centri Rousseau an Italian NGO with headquarters in Milan - has been developing an international cooperation project in the Shufat camp with the aim of promoting a network of Palestinian, Israeli and Italian associations that can work together to implement social and educational programmes for children.... | |
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| | | Palestine man charged with running brother over with car | | Posted Sunday, September 24, 2006 7:08:28 AM by Blog57 Team | | PALESTINE, Ark. A Palestine man is charged with second-degree battery for allegedly running over his brother with a car. Bond was is at five-thousand-dollars for 52-year-old Charles Johnson. Police say Johnson ran over his brother, 46-year-old Phillip Johnson, with a 1998 Oldsmobile on Wednesday night. Officers responding to a call found the younger man lying in the front yard of his sister's home with what appeared to be a broken leg and other multiple injuries. Charles Johnson was found lying on a bed inside and police say he was "very intoxicated." Phillip Johnson was in fair condition today at the Med Center in Memphis, Tennessee. Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.... | |
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| | | PALESTINE: More than 200 dead from Israeli assault | | Posted Sunday, September 03, 2006 9:15:49 AM by Blog57 Team | | Israel gunboats and air-to-surface missiles continued to pound Gaza as ?Operation Summer Rain?, which began on June 28, entered its 11th week. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), more than 202 Palestinians have been killed, including at least 44 children. The assault is ostensibly in response to the capture of a soldier by Palestinian militants during a raid on an Israeli military outpost at Kerem Shalom. The June 25 raid was in response to Israel?s continued artillery bombardment of Gaza, which had killed dozens of people in the previous month. According to the August 24 OCHA situation report, during Operation Summer Rain Israel has carried out at least 267 air strikes in Gaza. Hundreds of artillery shells have been fired into the Gaza Strip, while Palestinians have fired less than six homemade rockets per day into Israel, injuring 11 people.... | |
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