Daily Archives: September 16, 2021

2021-09-16: News Headlines

Ola Mousa (2021-09-16). Israel denies treatment to Palestinians with brain tumors. electronicintifada.net Gaza patients are still being blocked from medical care in the West Bank.

Middle East Monitor (2021-09-16). Does Israel want to end its forever wars in Gaza? juancole.com Daud Abdullah | — ( Middle East Monitor) — Israel is finally waking up to the stark reality that it can no longer continue with its forever wars in Gaza. This was the critical message from Foreign Minister Yair Lapid when he spoke at a conference at Reichman University in Herzliya last weekend: "The State …

Raouf Halaby (2021-09-16). Israel and Yom Kippur: Time for a Day of National Atonement? counterpunch.org Yom Kippur—the Day of Atonement—is considered the most important holiday in the Jewish faith. Falling in the month of Tishrei, it marks the culmination of the 10 Days of Awe, a period of introspection and repentance that follows Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. According to tradition, it is on Yom Kippur that God decides

_____ (2021-09-16). Urgent Appeal To Safeguard Palestinian Prisoners' Rights. popularresistance.org On Saturday 11 September, Al-Haq and partners submitted an urgent appeal to the UN special procedures calling for their urgent intervention to protect the lives of Palestinian prisoner escapees. On the evening of Friday 10 September, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) captured two of the six Palestinian prisoners' escapees from Gilboa Prison on Monday 6 September, Yacoub Qadri, 49 years old, and Mahmoud Abdullah Al-Aridah, 46 years old, in Al-Qafzeh Mountain, Nazareth city, and earlier this morning, Zakaria Zubeidi, 46 years old, and Mohammad Qasem Al-Aridah, 39 years old, were also captured near Al-Tur Mountain…

Ramzy Baroud (2021-09-16). From the "Iron Wall" to the "Villa in the Jungle": Palestinians Demolish Israel's Security Myths. dissidentvoice.org Twenty-five years before Israel was established on the ruins of historic Palestine, a Russian Jewish Zionist leader, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, argued that a Jewish state in Palestine could only survive if it exists "behind an iron wall" of defense. Jabotinsky was speaking figuratively. However, future Zionist leaders, who embraced Jabotinsky's teachings, eventually turned the principle of …

Higinio Polo (2021-09-16). Viejos terroristas del Mossad. globalizacion.ca Los viejos pistoleros del Mossad israelí, que jamás se han conmovido por el sufrimiento palestino, tienen un alto concepto de sí mismos y creen que sus acciones terroristas son legítimas y justas porque defienden al Estado de Israel, aplicado alumno…

Jason Ditz (2021-09-16). Syria: Israel Kills Three Shi'ite Fighters in Airstrikes; ISIS Kills Eight in Ground Ambush. news.antiwar.com

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2021-09-16). Podcast Ep 44: Musicians make noise for Palestinian rights. electronicintifada.net Author Mona Hajjar Halaby retraces her mother's footsteps in Jerusalem.

Staff (2021-09-15). Palestinian Escapee Zakaria al-Zubaidi Suffers Brain Death from Extreme Torture by Israeli Police. orinocotribune.com On Monday, September 13, Zakaria al-Zubaidi, one of the six Palestinian detainees who had escaped an Israeli maximum security prison last week, suffered brain death in hospital, reported Palestinian media. He had been transferred to the intensive care unit of a hospital on Monday after being severely tortured by occupation authorities. | The news comes just two days after his capture, at which time he was reportedly beaten by Israeli security forces. On Sunday, September 12, Zubaidi's brother Jibril al-Zubaidi took to social media to report that since the re-arrest, Zakaria had been "subjected to the most extreme…

Zach Farber (2021-09-15). How U.S. non-profits fund Israeli settlements. liberationnews.org In addition to supplying almost $4 billion in direct aid annually, the U.S. government allows — and actually grants tax-exempt status to — NGOs raising money here for Zionist settlements dedicated to pushing Palestinians off their land.

Adri Nieuwhof (2021-09-15). Benny Gantz war crimes case goes to Dutch appeals court. electronicintifada.net Israelis accused of war crimes should not enjoy official immunity.

Kevin Mwanza (2021-09-15). Apple Issues Urgent Warning About 'Zero-Click' Spyware Security Attack From Israeli Company. moguldom.com Israeli cyber security firm NSO Group's invasive spyware enables hackers to deploy security attacks in Apple's iMessage service using zero-click malware, allowing hackers to take hold of iPhones without any interaction from the victim. Apple has warned its customers about the security issue and issued an emergency software update to fix the critical vulnerability in …

Susana Khalil (2021-09-15). Jesus was a Palestinian, but so was Judas. orinocotribune.com By Susana Khalil — Sep 13, 2021 | Solitary letter to the de facto President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas | I have made a pact with life that, in my rudimentary and messy struggle from the Diaspora for the liberation of my Palestinian homeland against Israeli colonial anachronism, it will intrinsically be my path and encounter with humanity itself, with all that is noble, sane, just, honest and generous. I do not speak of the beautiful, because all this is painful and I stoically protect it with the mud and honey of dignity. | When you die, I will not celebrate your death. I say this because th…

Staff (2021-09-15). Forced Entry: NSO Group Spies Secretly Seized Control of Apple Devices by Exploiting Flaw in Code. democracynow.org Apple has released an emergency software update to fix a security flaw in its iPhones and other products researchers found was being exploited by the Israeli-based NSO Group to infect the devices with its Pegasus spyware. The security exploit exposes "widespread abuse that we have associated with NSO Group and other companies like it," says Ronald Deibert, director of the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, which discovered the security flaw. "This is … the most important crisis around global civil society right now." Over 1.65 billion Apple products in use around the globe have been vulnerable to the spyware…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-09-15). Over 1,300 Palestinian prisoners to go on hunger strike against Israeli repression. peoplesdispatch.org Prisoners across Israeli prisons and detention centers have been subjected to harsher treatment by the authorities as a form of collective punishment for the Gilboa prison break in the beginning of this month…

teleSUR, JCM (2021-09-15). Militares israelíes asesinan a un preso palestino recapturado. telesurtv.net Zakaria al-Zubaidi sufrió muerte cerebral como resultado de las torturas a las que fue sometido durante los interrogatorios.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-09-15). Detained Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah 'at risk of suicide' and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org Today we look at the continued persecution of Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, a hunger strike announced by Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, and more…

Staff (2021-09-15). 18 September, Milano: Rally in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners. samidoun.net Saturday, 18 September | 6 pm | Piazza Duca d'Acosta | Milan, Italy | Info: The article

Staff (2021-09-15). 18 September, Sao Paulo: Freedom for Palestinian prisoners — Remember Sabra and Shatila. samidoun.net Saturday, 18 September 4 pm Al Janiah Rua Rui Barbosa 269 Bela Vista, Sao Paulo/SP, Brazil Organized by Samidoun Brasil, Alkarama, Al Janiah, Frente Palestina Livre Info: www.instagram.com/p/CT0Sz59vC0C/ We call all organizations and people sympathetic to the Palestinian cause to join our public event this Saturday, the 18th, at 4 pm, for the release of […] | The article

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