U.S. Angers Palestinians With Reversal on Israeli Settlements
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-11-18
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday softened the U.S. position on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, reversing four decades of American policy and further undermining the effort to gain Palestinian statehood. | Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the U.S. is repudiating the 1978 State Department legal opinion that held that civilian settlements in the occupied territories are "inconsistent with international law." Israeli leaders welcomed the decision while Palestinians and other nations warned that it undercut any chance of a broader peace deal. | Pompeo told reporters at…
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US Says Israel Settlements Not Illegal Under International Law
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-18
The United States abandoned Monday its 40-year-long position announcing Israel's settlements in the occupied West Bank are not "inconsistent with international law." In doing so the North-American country effectively endorsed Israel's right to build settlements, further hindering an already stuck peace process. | RELATED: | Trump 'Frustrated' With Netanyahu Amid Israel's Political Impasse | "The establishment of Israeli civilian settlements is not, per se, inconsistent with in…
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Michael Lynk's UN Report on Israeli Settlements Speaks the Truth, But the World Refuses to Listen
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-18
He's a very tall man with bright eyes and a broad smile, and he holds out a great paw when he greets you. But Michael Lynk is no gentle giant. He may teach human rights law at the Western University in London, Ontario, but as the UN's special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied…
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US Says Israeli Settlements Are Legal, 23 Killed In Bolivia As Violent Coup Ignored & Venezuela Flop
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-11-18
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Pompeo Issues Historic US Policy Reversal: Israeli West Bank Settlements "Not Illegal"
Tyler Durden | theantimedia.com | 2019-11-18
The Trump administration is reversing the official US stance on the illegality of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
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Outrage erupts over Trump administration's 'legalization' of (still-illegal) Israeli settlements in West Bank
rt.com | 2019-11-18
The US announcement that it will no longer view West Bank Israeli settlements as inconsistent with international law has provoked outrage in all corners of the globe, on humanitarian, legal, and common-sense grounds. | The Trump administration's controversial move on Monday reversed decades of US policy, contradicting numerous United Nations resolutions and international human rights conventions. In an effort to downplay the change, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the decision came as a result of a "legal review" of the State Department opinion on the settlements from 1978, but reactions exploded both dome…
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Soldiers Seriously Injure Two Palestinian Children Near Ramallah
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2019-11-18
Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured, Sunday, two Palestinian children near the entrance of the al-Jalazoun refugee camp, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Raed Dalaysha of the local Popular Committee in the refugee camp said the soldiers shot Rami Naji at-Tayeh, 13, and Amir Ehab Zobeidi, …
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Seriously Ailing Detainee Moved From Hospital To Ramla Prison Clinic
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2019-11-18
Despite his serious medical condition, the Israeli authorities moved Palestinian political prisoner, Sami Abu Diak, 36, from Assaf Harofeh Medical Center to the clinic in Ramla prison, which lacks specialists and adequate medical supplies. The Palestinian Detainees Committee has reported that the detainee was rushed to the hospital two days …
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Soldiers Abduct A Palestinian Merchant At Erez Terminal
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2019-11-18
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Sunday at night, a Palestinian merchant while trying to cross the Erez Terminal with the besieged Gaza Strip. Media sources in Gaza said the merchant, identified as Adel Mohammad Hussein, headed to Erez and was interrogated for some hours before he was taken prisoner. They added …
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Netanyahu: "Government With Arab Coalition Partners Is A Serious Threat To Israel"
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2019-11-18
In a video message, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, "warned" that any government that has Arab (Palestinian) coalition partners "poses a serious threat to Israel." In his message, Netanyahu stated that the Israeli President Reuven Rivlin asked him not to head to a new election. "We do not want a …
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Palestinian Receives Demolition Notice South of Hebron
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2019-11-18
Israeli authorities notified Palestinian resident in the village of Khirbet Susiya, south of Hebron, of its intent to demolish the home, the Palestinian News and Info Agency (WAFA) reported. Rateb Jabour, coordinator of the National and Popular Committee in southern Hebron, said that Israeli forces handed local resident Mohammed Zain …
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Israeli Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians, Including One Woman, In Jerusalem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2019-11-18
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Sunday evening, three Palestinians, including one woman, in front of the Hebrew University in occupied Jerusalem, after many students held a nonviolent activity in solidarity with the slain Palestinians in Gaza, and Israel's arbitrary excessive use of force against civilians. The Palestinian News & Info Agency …
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Trump 'Pandering to His Extremist Base' on Israeli Settlements, Says Bernie Sanders
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-18
Sanders was one of a number of critics who saw the Monday announcement that the White House won't treat the settlements as illegal as another attack on the Palestinian people. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/bernie_sanders_30_0.jpg …
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'There Is No More Two-State Solution': Trump Administration to Further Soften Opposition to West Bank Settlements
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-18
"How the hell is it possible for the U.S. policy to be any softer?" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/pompeo_6_0.jpg …
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Protesters demand end to Israeli attacks on Gaza
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-11-17
NY, New York – On the evening of November 15, over 150 people gathered on 42nd and Broadway to demand that Israel, backed by the United States government, stop the murder and occupation of Palestinians. | The emergency rally was called by several different organizations in New York City in response to Israel murdering 34 people, including eight children in Gaza. The organizations were Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, CODEPINK: Women For Peace, Labor for Palestine, Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, NY4Palestine, Jews for Palestinian Right of Return, American Muslims for Palesti…
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Trump 'Frustrated' With Netanyahu Amid Israel Political Impasse
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-17
United States President Donald Trump is "frustrated, bewildered, and angry" with the current political situation in Israel and especially with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Ynet News reported Sunday citing top White House officials who spoke with their Israeli counterparts on condition of anonymity. | RELATED: | US Pompeo Supports Israel Attacking Alleged Iranian Threats | In a reference to the Trump administration's long-delayed peace plan for the region, the source…
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Updated: "Israeli Soldiers Attack Journalists at Bethlehem Sit-in Protest"
IMEMC News & Agencies | imemc.org | 2019-11-17
Dozens of journalists, Sunday, suffered from suffocation after inhaling tear gas fired at them by Israeli forces during a solidarity sit-in, held in support of injured photojournalist Moath Amarneh, to the north of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem. Local witnesses told WAFA that Israeli soldiers fired a barrage […]
| | Provoking a conflict with Gaza led to the deaths of 32 Palest…
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Bolivia's New US-Made Dictatorship, Netanyahu Wins As Gaza Loses & Iran's Protests Are Trump's Fault
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-11-17
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (11/16/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
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A group of well known Israelis are calling on the EU to 'ban the import of settlement goods'
Tom Anderson | thecanary.co | 2019-11-17
A group of well known Israelis have called on the European Union (EU) to ban the sale of products which originate in Israel's 'settlements'. In a letter published in the Guardian, 13 anti-occupation Israelis wrote: As Israelis who care about the future of our country, we ask the European Union to ban the import of settlement goods in order to support a just future for Israelis and Palestinians alike. | "Thoroughly detr…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2019/11/17/a-group-of-well-known-israelis-are-calling-on-the-eu-to-ban-the-import-of-settlement-goods/
Microsoft to Investigate Israeli Company over Surveillance of Palestinians
IMEMC News & Agencies | imemc.org | 2019-11-17
The US technology company, Microsoft, says it is investigating whether the use of facial recognition technology developed by an Israeli startup company it funded "complies with its ethics principles," following reports that Israel uses the company's facial recognition technology for surveillance on Palestinians. On Friday, Microsoft, which is based …
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UN Votes To Renew UNRWA Mandate
IMEMC News & Agencies | imemc.org | 2019-11-17
The overwhelming vote, at the United Nations General Assembly's Fourth Committee, in favor of renewing the mandate of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) dominated the front page of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies, on Saturday. This issue was given special attention in light of American …
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How Western Media Bias Allows Israel to Get away with Murder in Gaza
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-16
An Israeli attack on Gaza was imminent, and not because of any provocations by Palestinian groups in the besieged, impoverished Gaza Strip. The Israeli military escalation was foreseeable because it factors neatly in Israel's contentious political scene. The war was not a question of "if", but "when". The answer came on November 12, when the …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/how-western-media-bias-allows-israel-to-getaway-with-murder-in-gaza/
Israeli Zionist Racism Unmasked
Kim Petersen | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-16
Imagine if following the recent federal election in Canada, where the Liberal Party was left with a minority government, that prime minister Justin Trudeau had stated, "We are facing an emergency that is unprecedented in the history of Canada." Why? Imagine that Trudeau explained that "setting up a government that depends on the First Nation …
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Israel Kills Over 30 In Gaza, Bolivia Coup About Lithium And More & Israeli Group Taking Syria's Oil
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-11-15
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (11/14/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
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Netanyahu Kills Palestinians to Keep Opposition From Forming Government
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-11-15
Provoking a conflict with Gaza led to the deaths of 32 Palestinians. But was the real objective the creation of an emergency government so Netanyahu can remain in power?
therealnews.com/stories/netanyahu-kills-palestinians-keep-opposition-forming-government
A Lesson for the Palestinian Leadership: Real Reasons Behind Israel's Arrest and Release of Labadi, Mi'ri
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-14
The release on November 6 of two Jordanian nationals, Heba al-Labadi and Abdul Rahman Mi'ri from Israeli prisons was a bittersweet moment. The pair were finally reunited with their families after harrowing experiences in Israel. Sadly, thousands of Palestinian prisoners are still denied their freedom, still subjected to all sorts of hardships at the hands …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/a-lesson-for-the-palestinian-leadership-real-reasons-behind-israels-arrest-and-release-of-labadi-miri/
Israel's relentless violence on Gaza met by global silence
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2019-11-14
A ceasefire has been reached in Gaza after Israel launched a wave of airstrikes that killed 34 Palestinians, including eight…
thegrayzone.com/2019/11/14/israels-relentless-violence-on-gaza-met-by-global-silence/
The Real Reasons Behind Israel's Arrest of Two Jordanian Nationals
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2019-11-13
The release on November 6 of two Jordanian nationals, Heba al-Labadi and Abdul Rahman Mi'ri from Israeli prisons was a bittersweet moment. The pair were finally reunited with their families after harrowing experiences in Israel. Sadly, thousands of Palestinian prisoners are still denied their freedom, still subjected to all sorts of hardships at the hands of their Israeli jailers. | Despite the jubilant return of the two prisoners, celebrated in Jordan, Palestine and throughout the Arab world, several compelling questions remain unanswered: why were they held in the first place? Why were they released and what ca…
mintpressnews.com/real-reasons-israel-arrest-two-jordanian-nationals/262833/
Israel Calls up Reserve Soldiers as Gaza Death Toll Mounts
Middle East Eye | theantimedia.com | 2019-11-13
At least 10 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza that began early on Tuesday.
Anglican Church in Southern Africa voted to support non-violent action to end Israel's military occupation of Palestine, especially BDS actions
ziyaad | bdsmovement.net | 2019-11-12
Anglican Church in Southern Africa voted to support non-violent action to end Israel's military occupation of Palestine, especially BDS actions : In the NewsProvincial Synod votes on Israel sanctions, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia | Economic Boycott Cultural BoycottSeptember 26, 2019 | By: | | Anglican Church of Southern Africa …
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James Corbett Interview — ISIS Was Created, Armed And Funded By US/Israel & It's An Open Secret
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-11-12
The US government armed Osama Bin Laden; it armed Saddam Hussain with chemical weapons to be used against Iran in 1980; it armed the very groups that later became ISIS. Yet we are sold an entirely different yarn by the US government and its lap dog MSM. Today I have invited James Corbett on the …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/interviews/james-corbett-interview-isis-created-armed-funded-by-us-israel-an-open-secret/
The Houthis Are Preparing for a Planned Israeli Attack on Yemen
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2019-11-11
There are strong indications that Israel is planning to launch airstrikes against Yemen under the pretext of preventing an Iranian military presence from taking hold, much as it did in Syria and Iraq.
mintpressnews.com/houthis-preparing-planned-israel-attack-yemen/262730/
Jewish group welcomes revocation of Beth Oloth's charitable status
patrick | bdsmovement.net | 2019-11-11
Jewish group welcomes revocation of Beth Oloth's charitable status: In the NewsBeth Oloth Charitable Organization has had its tax-deductible status revoked by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) due to its support for Israel's army and activities in Israel's illegal settlements. | January 28, 2019 | By: | | Independent Jewish Voices Canada …
bdsmovement.net/news/jewish-group-welcomes-revocation-beth-oloth%E2%80%99s-charitable-status
A Modern-Day Colonial Plantation Seeks Influence Over Trump
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-11-08
Psagot Winery from the occupied West Bank hired the lobbying firm Covington and Burling to sow conflict between the Trump administration and the EU, in order to gain leverage in its legal struggle to mis-label its wines as being products of Israel.
therealnews.com/stories/a-modern-day-colonial-plantation-seeks-influence-over-trump
Gaza Championship Football Team Urges Argentina and Uruguay National Teams to Cancel "Friendly" Match in Apartheid Israel
PACBI | bdsmovement.net | 2019-11-05
Gaza Championship Football Team Urges Argentina and Uruguay National Teams to Cancel "Friendly" Match in Apartheid Israel: Open LetterIn an open letter, Khadamat Rafah, the top Gaza League football team, urges Argentina and Uruguay national teams to cancel "friendly" match in apartheid Tel Aviv. Israel denied Khadamat Rafah permits to travel to the 2019 Palestine Cup, causing the finals…
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Tell Argentina and Uruguay: There's Nothing Friendly About Israeli Apartheid
PACBI | bdsmovement.net | 2019-11-02
Tell Argentina and Uruguay: There's Nothing Friendly About Israeli Apartheid: Action AlertUrge Argentina and Uruguay national football teams to stand with Palestinian footballers and cancel the "friendly" match in apartheid Israel. Red Card IsraelNovember 2, 2019 | By: | | Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) …
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Baghdadi Deception Exposed, Israel Bombs Gaza After Phantom Rocket & US Violates Own Syria Sanctions
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-11-02
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Russia Has 'Proof' US Is Smuggling Oil In Syria & Did Israel/US Create A Civil War In Lebanon?
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-10-26
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (10/26/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
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US Stays In Syria, Kurds Call On Israel To Attack Turkey & US Says Israel Has 'Right' To Attack Iran
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-10-22
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (10/21/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
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