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Alleged Jewish terrorist: I know God is pleased

Chaim Levinson and Nir Hasson
Harteez
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00 EST

The Jerusalem District Prosecutor's Office on Thursday charged alleged Jewish terrorist Yaakov (Jack) Teitel with two murders, three attempted murders and other acts of violence.

"It was a pleasure and an honor to serve my God," said Teitel at the Jerusalem courthouse. "I have no regret and no doubt that God is pleased."

Teitel also denied recent reports that he had operated as an undercover Shin Bet agent.

Palestinian killed on Gaza border

BBC News
Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:28 EST

An Israeli tank near the Karni crossing point

Israeli troops have shot dead a Palestinian man, and wounded another, near a border crossing with Gaza.

Gazan medics said they retrieved the body of a 16-year-old boy, who they described as an unarmed civilian, near the Karni crossing.

The Israeli military said they would investigate the incident but the group "appeared to be planting explosives".

Clashes have been relatively rare in Gaza since Israel's military offensive in December and January.

The Guardian
Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:20 EST

© Hatem Omar/AP
The Goldstone report, which HRW supported, accused Israel of a disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorise a civilian population.

Human Rights Watch denies having political agenda or seeking funds from Saudi Arabia

America's leading human rights organisation has accused Israel and its supporters of an "organised campaign" of false allegations and misinformation, including "extremely personal attacks" on its staff, in an attempt to discredit the group over its reports of war crimes in Gaza.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) ties the campaign - which has included accusations that the group's reports on the Jewish state are written by "anti-Israel ideologues" and that it has sought funds from Saudi Arabia - to a statement by a senior official in the Israeli prime minister's office in June pledging to "dedicate time and manpower to combating" human rights organisations.

The criticism began with Israeli pressure groups and rightwing blogs, but in recent weeks it has drawn the support of influential individuals such as Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel peace prize winner, and HRW's own founder, Robert Bernstein, who said the organisation's reports were "helping those who wish to turn Israel into a pariah state". He called on HRW to focus more on abuses by Arab governments.

Digital Journal
Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:48 EST

Claiming Palestinian farmers are stealing water from the central source shared by both Israelis and Palestinians, Israel has implemented water restrictions on Palestinians in the disputed West Bank.

Access to fresh water supplies throughout the Middle East - and throughout Israel and Palestine in particular - is a cause of concern and conflict.

"Water is a cardinal issue in the Middle East," MidEastWeb states on their web site. "Any year there is a drought, it makes headlines. Otherwise, it is always there, lurking in the background, behind the religious and nationalist slogans and rhetoric."
However, in the disputed West Bank territory, a water-rights disagreement is threatening to create a broader conflict among Palestinians and Israelis.

Press TV
Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:06 EST

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A baby killed in a recent air raid carried out on the northern Yemeni province of Sa'dah by either the Yemeni government or Saudi forces

A leading Islamic clerical establishment in Iran has condemned the indiscriminate killing of Shia civilians by Yemeni government forces.

"News of the unfortunate crackdown against Yemeni Muslims and Shias by the country's government forces... has left the Muslim world in great sorrow," the Society of the Seminary Teachers of Qom said in a Friday night statement.

The Shia establishment also condemned human rights organizations for staying silent about the massacre and indirectly attacked the Saudi Arabian government for launching its own military offensive against northern Yemen.

"The direct interference of certain Arab regimes in the ethnic cleansing of Shia and the silence adopted by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and international human rights establishments about this atrocity leaves room for thought."

Saudi soldiers killed in Yemen fighting

Press TV
Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:57 EST

Amid ongoing fighting in northern Yemen, at least two Saudi soldiers have been killed and five others have been wounded in border clashes with Houthi fighters.

Saudi military sources say the fighting took place in the Jebel Dukhan region, a mountainous border area, which had been used by Yemeni forces to launch attacks on the Shia fighters.

According to the Saudi paper Asharq Al-Awsat, the bodies of the two dead Saudi soldiers were moved to the town of Jizan on Friday.

The fighting between Houthi fighters and Yemeni forces started in August, when the government launched attacks on areas inhabited by Shia civilians and the Houthis.

From the River to the Sea

Gilad Atzmon
Gilad.co.uk
Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:49 EST

Let's once and for all stop getting excited about America mounting pressure on Israel to freeze West Bank settlements. The entire fascination with the topic is a product of Zionist spin. It is there to divert attention from the root cause of the conflict: The robbery of Palestine and Palestinians in the name of a 'Jewish home coming'. The call to stop Israeli construction in the West Bank is there to leave us with the false impression that the robbery of Palestine started in 1967. The facts are known to many of us, but not to all. The vast majority of Palestinians were expelled from their towns, villages, fields and orchards in 1948.

What seems as an American peace initiative putting pressure on Israel to halt its expansion into the West Bank is in fact an agenda that is promoted by Zionists within the US Administration who realise like the late Sharon, that the only chance for the Jewish state to survive the next decade, is to shrink into a little Jewish shtetle (ghetto). The Two state solution is indeed the last effort to keep Zionism alive.

Netanyahu is far from being stupid. He understands it all. He knows that his Zionist Revisionist father's dream of 'greater Eretz Yisrael' is unattainable.

Wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot/MOX news/C Span
Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:51 EST

Rep. Dennis Kucinich cancelled his keynote speech at a Democratic Party fund-raising dinner after several elected officials protested his stance on Israel.

Kucinich (D-Ohio),who e-mailed the Palm Beach County, Fla., chairman on Nov. 6 to bow out of giving his talk next week, has a history of criticizing Israel .He has voted against multiple resolutions supporting the state and opposed sanctions against Iran's anti-Israel regime.

Kucinich, a perpetual dark-horse Democratic presidential candidate, said in the e-mail that he did not want his speech or appearance to hamper Democratic fund-raising efforts, according to the Palm Beach Post.

Ben White
The Guardian
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:00 EST

A young student deported from the West Bank to Gaza is just the latest victim of Israeli efforts to sever ties between the territories

Twenty-one-year-old Palestinian student Berlanty Azzam was seized by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint in the West Bank last month. Bound and blindfolded, she was forcibly deported to the Gaza Strip. Berlanty was in her final semester at Bethlehem University in the West Bank, and was returning from a job interview in Ramallah.

The problem was that she had an ID card registered in Gaza, and the Israeli occupation, in the words of the human rights organisation, B'tselem, "almost completely forbids the movement of Palestinians between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip".

Bethlehem university has had "continuous problems" getting Gaza students the requisite permission from Israel, according to communications officer Stephanie Rhodes.

B'Tselem
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:19 EST

In the summer of 2007, Israel instated a new procedure regarding residents of the Gaza Strip wishing to exit Gaza in order to receive medical treatment. According to the procedure, authorization some of these requests are authorized only if the resident first undergoes a questioning by the Israeli Security Agency (ISA). In a response by the Prime Minister's Office to a letter from Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) on 22 May 2008, the purpose of the questioning was described as "evaluating the degree of danger posed by the applicant". However, testimonies given to human rights organizations in Israel indicate otherwise. The organizations have documented cases in which the ISA has exploited the questionings to exert inappropriate pressure on ill persons, with the aim of forcing them to collaborate with the Agency and give information to agents, as a prerequisite for receiving a permit to exit Gaza for medical treatment. As the questionings take place in Erez Checkpoint, the ISA has even used them, in some cases, as a means to arrest persons and take them to interrogation within Israel.

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