[A-List] Fwd: The Latest from Mondoweiss for 03/20/2011

[Suzanne de Kuyper]

Sorry this is so long.  I do not yet know how to send only one article but
these are spellbinding,  Suzanne

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  Here are the headlines from Mondoweiss for 03/20/2011:

   - Settlers break Ayman’s horse’s neck before his
eyes<https://mail.google.com/mail/html/compose/static_files/blank_quirks.html#12ed2f01f30d9b5a_mctoc1>
   - Following Itamar killings, village of Awarta faced mass arrests,
   violence and massive destruction during five days of
curfew<https://mail.google.com/mail/html/compose/static_files/blank_quirks.html#12ed2f01f30d9b5a_mctoc2>
   - Report: Palestinian anti-wall activist tortured, threatened with rape
   and execution by Shin Bet because of BDS
activities<https://mail.google.com/mail/html/compose/static_files/blank_quirks.html#12ed2f01f30d9b5a_mctoc3>
   - Arabs in Libya, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria are literally dying for
   democracy (and in the U.S. we pat ourselves on the back for going out to
   vote for Obama)<https://mail.google.com/mail/html/compose/static_files/blank_quirks.html#12ed2f01f30d9b5a_mctoc4>
   - Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Ralph Bunche’s achievements didn’t
   make Jim Crow
kosher<https://mail.google.com/mail/html/compose/static_files/blank_quirks.html#12ed2f01f30d9b5a_mctoc5>
   - Schell: Some day we’ll build statues to Manning, who refused to be an
   accomplice to systematic torture of
Iraqis<https://mail.google.com/mail/html/compose/static_files/blank_quirks.html#12ed2f01f30d9b5a_mctoc6>
   - We planned the Purim party, then my partner actually read the Book of
   Esther…<https://mail.google.com/mail/html/compose/static_files/blank_quirks.html#12ed2f01f30d9b5a_mctoc7>
   - LGBT Center in Manhattan forgets its
mission<https://mail.google.com/mail/html/compose/static_files/blank_quirks.html#12ed2f01f30d9b5a_mctoc8>
   - Frum says Palestinian state would have to be ‘carved’ out of
Israel<https://mail.google.com/mail/html/compose/static_files/blank_quirks.html#12ed2f01f30d9b5a_mctoc9>
   - Israelis invoke violent threats to peace
process<https://mail.google.com/mail/html/compose/static_files/blank_quirks.html#12ed2f01f30d9b5a_mctoc10>

Settlers break Ayman’s horse’s neck before his eyes
Mar 19, 2011 11:36 pm | Kate

and other news from Today in Palestine:

Land, property, resources theft and destruction / Ethnic cleansing /
Settlers

*Erasing Palestine from Lifta / Sophie
O'Brien*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=694a3b41ab&e=ffc6959b5f>
[photos] 19 Mar -- The Israel Land Administration (ILA) has put a plan in
place which would see land in the village of Lifta, a former Palestinian
village situated on the north-west edge of Jerusalem sold to private
developers. A plan which would see Palestinian history completely stripped
from the village ... Over 500 Arab villages were depopulated or demolished
during the 1948 war by the ruthless colonial Zionist forces. Lifta is an
exception in this respect as it is "the only village which remains as it was
before 1948," Daphna Golan asserts, a Professor of Law at the Hebrew
University and organiser of the petition to save Lifta.
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1723<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=cfbf399977&e=ffc6959b5f>

*Settlers attack village near
Salfeet*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=6ccf796d22&e=ffc6959b5f>
SALFEET, 18 Mar (WAFA) -- Dozens of Israeli settlers Friday attacked the
village of Yasouf, east of Salfeet, according to witnesses. They said
residents confronted the settlers, who came from nearby Tapouach settlement,
to prevent them from causing damage or harm to the villagers.  Israeli
soldiers later raided the village and fired tear gas at the village, said
the residents.[Yasouf has fruit trees and vegetable gardens fed by a spring
at the base of a cliff, which has long been coveted by the settlers.]
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=15549<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=f1f3995b41&e=ffc6959b5f>

*Medics: Settlers attack Palestinian
man*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=a400355b92&e=ffc6959b5f>
NABLUS (Ma‘an) 19 Mar -- A Palestinian man was hospitalized Saturday after
he was attacked by a group of settlers in Nablus, medics said. Mahmoud
Rashad Atallah, 30, was driving near the illegal Yitzhar settlement when
settlers obstructed his car and assaulted him. Attallah sustained injuries
to his head and chest and was taken by ambulance to Rafedia hospital, medics
from the Palestinian Red Crescent said. On Friday, 35-year-old Talal
Ad-Dmeidi was beaten with sticks by settlers in the same area.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=370068<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=f2744dd179&e=ffc6959b5f>

*Ayman's horse killed by
settlers*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=c2994a51b4&e=ffc6959b5f>
[photos] Jordan Valley Solidarity 19 Mar -- Three days ago, Ayman, a boy of
eleven years old from Ein Il Hilwe, was attacked by three settlers from the
illegal Israeli settlement of Maskyyot. The settlers arrived in a blue car
when Ayman was playing with four friends near the spring water. This spring
water is 30 meters far from his home, however, Ayman, his family, and all
the Palestinian living in the Jordan Valley, are banned to use them and
usually threatened and attacked by settlers when they are around. In this
occasion, the settlers who attacked Ayman, took his horse, tied a cable
around its neck and after tried to asphyxiate the animal, the settlers broke
its head. The settlers carried out all this brutality in front of the eyes
and horror of Ayman and his friends.Ayman’s sisters were attacked in the
same place when they approached the spring water to give water to their
cows. Also two month ago, Ayman’s mother was also beaten by
settlers<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=ca3e08c132&e=ffc6959b5f>.
The Israeli illegal occupation is also working with bulldozers in this area
preparing the land for expending Maskyoot settlement.
http://www.jordanvalleysolidarity.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=194:aymans-horse-killed-by-settlers&catid=15:2010&Itemid=21<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=ea6720c883&e=ffc6959b5f>

*Technology could ease water crisis in Israel, West
Bank*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=5743b83236&e=ffc6959b5f>
UPI 18 Mar -- For Lauren Costello, the severity of the Israeli-Palestinian
water shortage is illustrated by one thing: an ordinary bucket. Adel Handal,
whose family hosted Costello, an American, for a two-month service trip to
Bethlehem, places the bucket in the bottom of the family's shower to catch
water. Like many people in the West Bank, the Handals must save and reuse
every drop. "Water is never guaranteed here," Costello said in a phone
interview. "Whenever it rains, people are like 'Oh, thank God! We needed
this so badly.'" The Handals have running water courtesy of Mekerot, the
national water company of Israel. But Mekerot shuts off the pipes to
Bethlehem when water is scarce. "“They control the water," Handal said in a
phone interview. "In the summer, they cut it. Sometimes a month, no water."
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/03/18/Technology-could-ease-water-crisis-in-Israel-West-Bank/UPIU-3691299780913/<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=b73e36ec27&e=ffc6959b5f>

*Israeli municipality of Jerusalem seeks controlling education
curriculum*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=2b74dcf3ea&e=ffc6959b5f>
JERUSALEM, 17 Mar (WAFA) -- The Israeli Municipality’s department of
Education Thursday, mainstreamed its latest resolution on all the recognized
public and private schools which it finances which includes purchasing only
the supervised and improved curriculum. The resolution which was issued on
March 7; states that all schools must purchase the Israeli new supervised
and improved curriculum for 2011-2012, thus canceling the Palestinian
curriculum in East Jerusalem as a way of applying the Israeli law of school
supervision issued in 1969 ... The [Al-Maqdissi] Foundation warned of the
implementation and enforcement of the Israeli curriculum which will be
forced on 60% of schools causing obliteration of the Palestinians’ cultural
identity.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=15545<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=73ca528776&e=ffc6959b5f>

*Palestinians burn settler home in
Jerusalem*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=d850a43682&e=ffc6959b5f>
JERUSALEM (Ma‘an) 18 Mar -- A settler house was set on fire Friday as
Palestinians threw Molotov cocktails at it in the Wad Ar-Rabab area of the
Silwan neighborhood in Jerusalem.  Palestinians threw stones and more
Molotov cocktails toward the settlers as they attempted to put out the fire,
witnesses said. An Israeli border guard officer suffered burns and was
hospitalized, locals said.  Photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Turk was also
injured during the clash and taken to hospital. Israeli forces fired tear
gas toward Palestinian residents of the area and their homes.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=370004<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=4277623faa&e=ffc6959b5f>

*2010 Video: Settlers singing a song praising Baruch Goldstein in Sheikh
Jarrah*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=8081a5cc9a&e=ffc6959b5f>
uploaded 7 Mar 2010 -- Dr. Baruch Goldstein, an American-Israeli settler,
launched a suicide attack on Palestinian worshipers in the Ibrahimi Mosque
in Hebron during Purim (and Ramadan) in 1994. He killed 30 (one died later
in hospital) and injured 124 with an automatic rifle; he was killed by
survivors. Five weeks later, on April 6, Hamas and Islamic Jihad perpetrated
the first Palestinian suicide attack in Israel, in Afula, killing eight
Israelis. Certain of the most extreme settlers regard Goldstein as a hero,
as can be heard in this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psVxOnXbyYQ<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=88178cf7f3&e=ffc6959b5f>

*The Big Picture: Israeli settlements in the West
Bank*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=daf240b55a&e=ffc6959b5f>
Boston Globe, June 2009 -- 37 photos giving an overview, worth looking at
even now
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06/israeli_settlements_in_the_wes.html<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=c8b46fefa7&e=ffc6959b5f>

Cycle of violence Israel-Gaza

*Southern Israel bombarded with over 50 rockets from
Gaza*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=b508d4a736&e=ffc6959b5f>
Haaretz 19 Mar 10:42 -- Southern Israel was bombarded with rockets from Gaza
on Saturday morning, with over 50 rockets landing in the southern part of
the county, Israeli media reported. Two people were reported to be lightly
injured and two homes damaged by the barrage of rockets. The rockets began
to land in the early hours of Saturday, with most of them landing in open
areas in southern Israel's western Eshkol region. Two of the rockets landed
on small communities in the area. In response to the rocket barrage, Foreign
Minister Avigdor Lieberman instructed the Israeli envoy to the United
Nations to lodge an official complaint.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/southern-israel-bombarded-with-over-50-rockets-from-gaza-1.350158<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=4d0bfe52ec&e=ffc6959b5f>

*5 Palestinians hurt as Israel strikes
Gaza*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=46fcbf17fd&e=ffc6959b5f>
GAZA CITY (Ma‘an) 19 Mar 12:03 -- Five Palestinians sustained injuries
Saturday as Israeli forces struck targets in the Gaza Strip and Hamas
claimed responsibility for firing 49 mortar shells that struck the western
Negev. Locals said the Israeli strikes targeted a security facility of
Hamas' military wing in Gaza City's Shuja‘iyya neighborhood. The ministry of
interior in Gaza said three Hamas security officers were injured in the
Israeli shelling attack, including one seriously, raising the injury count
to five. Medical official Adham Abu Salmiya said earlier that a 3-year-old
boy was lightly injured by shrapnel to the head. He added that a 26-year-old
man sustained moderate wounds in his foot and his hand. Both were evacuated
to Ash-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Hamas' military wing claimed
responsibility for the mortar attacks...
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=370086<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=8fc809b89d&e=ffc6959b5f>

*Israel strikes Gaza after massive rocket barrage on
south*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=15a2f3753d&e=ffc6959b5f>
Haaretz 19 Mar 12:36 -- Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, claimed
responsibility for firing 10 of Saturday's mortars, an unusual move after a
long period in which it had let other smaller militant groups do its
bidding. "Targeting the enemy's posts was a response to the ongoing Zionist
assaults, airstrikes and tanks shelling on the Gaza Strip. The latest was
two days ago, where two of our mujahidin were killed," said Hamas' armed
wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades. An Israel Defense Forces spokesman said Israel
was holding Hamas "solely responsible for the attacks". Gaza residents
reported hearing constant shelling along the enclave's border with Israel
and the IDF spokesman said tanks assisted by aircraft were firing at
militant targets in the coastal strip.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-strikes-gaza-after-massive-rocket-barrage-on-south-1.350171<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=22cfb53a29&e=ffc6959b5f>

*Palestinians: Hamas official killed, 4 injured in IDF
strike*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=8fda768d9c&e=ffc6959b5f>
Ynet 19 Mar 16:36 -- A Hamas official was killed and four civilians were
wounded in an IDF attack on the Gaza Strip, which included tank fire and air
strikes, said Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Adham Abu Salmia.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4044509,00.html<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=5b7ebced91&e=ffc6959b5f>

Siege / Blockade / Humanitarian issues

*Video: Gaza farmers work under
fire*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=bbb1e79806&e=ffc6959b5f>
PressTV 19 Mar -- Many Palestinian farmers, including women and children,
have come under Israeli fire along the so-called 'buffer zone' in the
northern and eastern parts of the Gaza Strip over the past two years ...
Safa Joudeh interviews a woman whose 19-year-old son was killed by the
Israelis -- along with all but one of his sheep.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170668.html<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=922f95b18d&e=ffc6959b5f>

*Gaza ... fed by gravel / Ahmed
Abdullah*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=df9966041f&e=ffc6959b5f>
16 Mar -- Workers began to collect gravel since the Israeli aggression on
Gaza ended in 2008, where the occupation forces prevented gravel from
entering the city.  This prompted residents to search for an alternative to
provide gravel to those who need it for building in general, or to
reconstruct homes destroyed during the war ... As for the dangers inflicted
on the workers in this field, Abu-Salmiah said that the ignorance of some
workers to the dangers of the job subjects them to death…their jobs can lead
to cancer because they are digging through the debris of homes that have
been bombed. Engineer Osama Kahil, president of the Palestinian Contractor
Union ...said that the gravel collected by the workers is from building
debris; unusable.  He added: "We as contractors strictly refuse to call it
gravel and refuse to reuse it.  It’s dangerous, and its dangers will show in
about 10 years, because it retains water and causes the beams to rust."
http://www.islamonline.net/en/IOLArticle_C/1278407601607/1278406708816/IOLArticle_C<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=d676c5ca7f&e=ffc6959b5f>

*The 'parking lot'
school*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=1c9838d696&e=ffc6959b5f>
Bethlehem - ANERA to PNN 19 Mar  - Picture a young eight-year-old girl
heading to school. She arrives in front of a building and slowly walks down
a steep, asphalt slope. She is careful because she knows if she runs down
the slope she is likely to fall and scrape her knees. At the bottom, she
does not enter a bright and colorful school building. Instead, she enters a
small, dark, stuffy makeshift school area that was converted from an old,
underground parking garage.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9733&Itemid=63<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=1b49048775&e=ffc6959b5f>

*Weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the occupied
Palestinian territory (10-16 March
2011)*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=1d76c71bfe&e=ffc6959b5f>
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continued Systematic Attacks against
Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
(OPT) -- -Two Palestinians were killed by an IOF air strike in the Gaza
Strip. -Two Palestinian workers were wounded in the same attack. -Three
buildings on the targeted site were destroyed. -Israeli settlers escalated
attacks on Palestinian civilians and their property in the West Bank. -PCHR
documented 40 attacks by Israeli settlers in the West Bank....
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/JARD-8F35LN?OpenDocument&RSS20=02-P<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=fe3cb17cd9&e=ffc6959b5f>

Detention

*2 farmers detained near
Ramallah*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=ad3912cc33&e=ffc6959b5f>
RAMALLAH (Ma‘an) 18 Mar -- Israeli forces detained on Friday two farmers who
were working on their lands near the Beit El settlement. The Palestinians in
Dura Al-Qare village, east of Ramallah, were identified as Yasser Suleiman
Al-Abed and Bassam Sami Farhoud. Witnesses told Ma‘an that forces detained
the men amid tensions with settlers, who have been placing tents on
Palestinian land.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=369973<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=a64f490612&e=ffc6959b5f>

*Campaign launched to save the life of kidney patient in Israeli
jail*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=4891c90174&e=ffc6959b5f>
NABLUS, (PIC) 19 Mar -- The Palestinian prisoner society launched a campaign
to demand international organizations to intervene to save the life of
prisoner Abdelkhaliq Gurani and provide him with urgent appropriate medical
treatment. Director of the society in Tubas city Mahmoud Sawafta said the
Israeli administration of Megiddo prison refuses to provide him with serious
medical treatment despite the deterioration of his health. Sawafta added
that prisoner Gurani suffers from kidney failure and severe anemia
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bc<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=53bcde35a6&e=ffc6959b5f>

*Prisoners' club demands immediate investigation on assaulting
prisoners*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=04e6d6a7e4&e=ffc6959b5f>
RAMALLAH, March17 (WAFA) - The prisoner’s club Thursday demanded an urgent
investigation due to the brutal attacks against prisoners during their
arrests. PPS (Palestinian Prisoner’s Club) lawyer, Jacqueline Fararjeh,  met
a number of the prisoners who were arrested recently, and reported that the
Israeli  forces raided their homes, severely beaten their families and
arrested  them at dawn. The prisoners said that the Israeli forces led them
to an isolated area close to an army camp called ‘Karmi Tzur’ , covered
their eyes and severely beaten them, after tying their hands and feet as
well as floating [dragging?] some of them over a rocky ground causing
serious bruises. They added that some of the soldiers opened the military’s
jeep back door and threw a prisoner from inside of the jeep while holding
his hands dragging him as the jeep was going at a high speed causing severe
injuries to his body.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=1554<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=1a81792ceb&e=ffc6959b5f>

Refugees

*Young disabled refugees lead the way at winter
camp*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=ca60e31dfc&e=ffc6959b5f>
16 Mar -- Jericho, West Bank -- Mustafa Abu Khurj, from Jenin refugee camp,
was injured during the first Intifada, and is now in a wheelchair. His
disability, as well as Israeli access restrictions in the West Bank, makes
travel difficult. An event organised by UNRWA this winter gave Mustafa a
rare chance to travel and meet new people. The four-day leadership event for
young refugees with disabilities was organised by UNRWA's disability
programme in cooperation with with community organisations and local NGOs.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/ASAZ-8F3EY6?OpenDocument&RSS20=02-P<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=3dd71dca9c&e=ffc6959b5f>

 Activism / Solidarity

*March against the wall in
Jenin*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=f77f5c2e46&e=ffc6959b5f>
ENIN (Ma‘an) 19 Mar -- The Popular Committee Against the Wall and Fatah
organized on Thursday a march in Anin village to plant 200 olive trees.
Fatah secretary general Radi Khadour said at the march that the separation
wall was isolating the village and turning it into a prison.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=369868<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=8de8f78cd9&e=ffc6959b5f>

*Scotland protests in solidarity with
Palestinians*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=b8aec1c040&e=ffc6959b5f>
BETHLEHEM (Ma‘an) 19 Mar -- Dozens of Scots and Arabs chanted slogans about
ending division Thursday in Glasgow in solidarity with Palestinians in
Manara and Katiba squares ... Glasgow's many solidarity groups have launched
campaigns to boycott Israeli settlement goods.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=369473<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=34ad5d74ec&e=ffc6959b5f>

War crimes / International kidnapping

*UN expert panel reports little progress in probe of possible Gaza war
crimes*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=4e8e12203c&e=ffc6959b5f>
GENEVA 18 Mar -- A U.N.-appointed panel has reported little progress by
either Israel or the Palestinians in investigating alleged war crimes in
2009 in Gaza. The panel, chaired by former New York Supreme Court Judge Mary
McGowan Davis, said Israeli authorities "significantly constrained" its work
by refusing to provide access to Israel, the West Bank, or Gaza via Israel,
according to a 27-page report obtained Friday by The Associated Press ...
The panel -- appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council -- also said it was
"extremely concerned" Hamas did not investigate rocket and mortar attacks
against Israel. The 47-nation council planned to take up the panel's report
Monday.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5ge1cAKAJUe8RzxdZOtO3NTAOl2jQ?docId=6292865<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=4c7083d6e5&e=ffc6959b5f>

*Gaza and Libya: compare and
contrast*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=90936d63ab&e=ffc6959b5f>
19 Mar -- Some interesting letters in The Guardian today: When Israel bombed
Gaza<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=a956965b5e&e=ffc6959b5f>at
the end of 2008 in a brutal action which killed 1,300 people and
destroyed 20,000 buildings, there was no question of the US allowing the UN
to impose a no-fly zone over Gaza to protect its people, 50% of which are
children. Those who support the UN security council's authorisation of a
no-fly zone over
Libya<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=f8e59bc716&e=ffc6959b5f>(Britain,
France and US line up for air strikes against
Gaddafi<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=4c96f111a6&e=ffc6959b5f>,
18 March) need to reflect on the selective nature of UN intervention
throughout the world and in the Middle East in particular.
http://jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com/2011/03/gaza-and-libya-compare-and-contrast.html<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=d108b0d93c&e=ffc6959b5f>

*Ukraine not ready for prime time or 2012 Euro Cup / Richard
Silverstein*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=e162a889cb&e=ffc6959b5f>
18 Mar -- ...Ukraine also sees tourism with Israel as a major opportunity
because there are many former Ukrainian Jews living in Israel, and Ukraine,
as the cradle of Hasidism, includes major pilgrimage sites for Orthodox Jews
... This is why Ukraine still has interest in joining NATO and just signed a
protocol with Israel ending the need for visas for mutual travel.  On his
current visit to Israel, Prime Minister Azarov emphasized his country’s
interest in signing a Free Trade
agreement<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=609cd135cb&e=ffc6959b5f>with
Israel that would create a duty-free zone for products and services
between the nations.  As part of this expansion of trade, there would also
be an expansion of security and military cooperation of the sort that
characterized Ukraine’s presumed participation in the abduction of
Palestinian civil engineer Dirar Abusisi on a train in Poltava on the night
of February 18th.
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2011/03/18/ukraine-not-ready-for-prime-time-or-2012-euro-cup/<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=8fa9795b0a&e=ffc6959b5f>

Quest for Palestinian unity

*Police disperse pro-unity protest in
Gaza*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=1212195d64&e=ffc6959b5f>
GAZA CITY (Ma‘an) 19 Mar 13:58 -- Security forces in the Gaza Strip
dispersed a demonstration between Al-Azhar University and the Unknown
Soldier Square in Gaza City on Saturday morning ... About 800 youths
gathered in front of Al-Azhar University, but police dispersed the
protesters and beat some of them, participants said. Young people attempted
to stay inside the courtyard of the square but police cars encircled the
area and prevented any gatherings, a protester in the coalition told Ma'an.
The coalition said it asked for permission to hold the protest but never
heard back from police.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=370158<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=04c94614fe&e=ffc6959b5f>

*Gaza journalist: Hamas threatened to kill
me*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=0d3bf51dbf&e=ffc6959b5f>
BETHLEHEM (Ma‘an) 19 Mar 16:49 -- A Palestinian journalist in the Gaza Strip
said Saturday that she received threats of violence from Hamas officials
over her participation in demonstrations ... The journalist, who requested
anonymity due to fears of reprisal, said she was detained and that while in
jail, police referenced her son by name and indirectly threatened to take
action against him over her work ... Other journalists told Ma‘an that
authorities were taking unprecedented measures against press in the wake of
the demonstrations. Cameras and recording equipment have been confiscated
and data erased ... On Saturday, about 100 reporters held an impromptu
demonstration in front of a Hamas building in Gaza City protesting their
treatment hours earlier at a protest that was violently dispersed.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=370192<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=c13b5c116c&e=ffc6959b5f>

*Witnesses: Police in Gaza attack
journalists*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=0fb412b4d9&e=ffc6959b5f>
GAZA CITY (Ma‘an) 19 Mar 13:04 -- Police in the Gaza Strip attacked
journalists covering demonstrations in support of unity efforts, briefly
detaining photographers for The Associated Press and Reuters, onlookers
said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=370150<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=f59202460d&e=ffc6959b5f>

*Former PLC speaker wants to accompany Abbas to
Gaza<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=f88250c820&e=ffc6959b5f>
*
HEBRON (Ma‘an) 19 Mar 13:23 -- Former speaker of parliament Aziz Dweik said
Saturday he wished to accompany President Mahmoud Abbas in his visit to the
Gaza Strip to help with efforts to end rivalry and achieve national unity.
Dweik called on all Hamas lawmakers and leaders in the Gaza Strip to give a
warm welcome to Abbas when he arrives in Gaza.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=370137<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=5fe38dc2ff&e=ffc6959b5f>

*Where will Abbas stay if he visits
Gaza?*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=36df71b2f6&e=ffc6959b5f>
RAMALLAH (Ma‘an) 19 Mar 13:59 -- President Mahmoud Abbas has sent three
delegates to the Gaza Strip in order to arrange for his stay in the besieged
enclave, Palestinian officials said Saturday ... But given that most the
Palestinian Authority’s institutions in Gaza are under Hamas’ control
including the presidential headquarters, Abbas may have a hard time finding
a place to stay. Abbas has a private house in Gaza City, which has been
guarded by Hamas officers to prevent vandalism or theft. Hamas officials say
that despite the movement's control of the PA headquarters, the presidential
office has been shut down since June 2007 after it was robbed.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=370065<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=a0edd56bba&e=ffc6959b5f>

*Local singer joins Ramallah
protests*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=2dbc6deecb&e=ffc6959b5f>
RAMALLAH (Ma‘an) 18 Mar -- Reem Talhami, a Palestinian singer, joined
Palestinians Friday in Ramallah protesting for national unity.  She sang a
new song for Gaza and dedicated it to all the Palestinians in Gaza.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=370022<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=015c2bb3cd&e=ffc6959b5f>

Political / Diplomatic news

*US denies report that it's mulling strategic dialogue with
Hezbollah*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=d29527b927&e=ffc6959b5f>
Haaretz 18 Mar -- White House spokesman Tommy Vietor stressed the U.S.'s
unwavering no-contact policy with Hezbollah, denying allegations otherwise
reported in a Washington Post article published Friday.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/u-s-denies-report-that-it-s-mulling-strategic-dialogue-with-hezbollah-1.350117<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=4e15b6b24f&e=ffc6959b5f>

*Taha dismisses Haaretz
'lies'*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=29b1555f22&e=ffc6959b5f>
GAZA CITY (Ma‘an) -- Hamas leader Ayman Taha denied reports in Israeli media
Friday that he was under investigation for corruption ... Hamas also
dismissed the "miserable attempt to undermine the credibility of the
movement."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=369998<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=52b0b085c7&e=ffc6959b5f>

Other news

*Israel deploys a miniature missile defence system / Pierre
Klochendler*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=0fd31d0004&e=ffc6959b5f>
NAHAL OZ, ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER, 18 Mar (IPS) - Amidst recrudescence of tension
on this critical front, the Israeli army is hoping to gain the technological
upper hand in missile combat with 'Palestinian militants' by equipping one
of its most sophisticated tanks with a miniature missile defence system ...
With its sensors and radar, the APS/Windbreaker detects an incoming missile,
dispatches interceptor missiles, and destroys the hostile weapon before it
can hit the tank.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54908<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=3ad4720e32&e=ffc6959b5f>

*US promoting arms trade mission organized by settlement
firm*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=46b7791429&e=ffc6959b5f>
EI 18 Mar -- The United States Department of Commerce and the US embassy in
Tel Aviv are co-promoting the Israel Unmanned Systems 2011 trade mission
from 27 March to 1 April. Their partner -- and the primary organizer -- is
Airlift, inc., an aerospace and consulting firm based in the settlement of
Talpiot Mizrach (East Talpiot) in occupied East Jerusalem. This raises
troubling questions about why Washington is promoting the Israeli arms trade
and why it is doing so with a firm based in an illegal colony which
explicitly contradicts official US policy as well as international law.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11866.shtml<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=f30294beeb&e=ffc6959b5f>

*Young man takes imam's place at Ramallah
mosque*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=864b62303b&e=ffc6959b5f>
RAMALLAH (Ma‘an) 19 Mar 1:16 -- As the imam of a mosque in central Ramallah
prepared to give his sermon, hundreds of worshipers were surprised when a
young man took the microphone and said the voice of the youth should be
heard. Worshipers at the Abdul Nasser mosque told Ma‘an that the imam went
up and hugged the young man asking him to step down because everyone was
waiting for sermon. The imam promised the young man could speak afterwards.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=370030<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=cdab6de312&e=ffc6959b5f>

*Jerusalem ad axed for misleading
tourists*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=662da7bac7&e=ffc6959b5f>
17 Mar -- A Palestinian government magazine advert promoting Jerusalem and
other Israeli cities as part of 'Palestine' has been banned in the UK. The
Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled this week that the Palestinian
Tourism Ministry promotion, which appeared in January's edition of National
Geographic's Traveller magazine, was 'misleading advertising' and must not
appear again in its current form.
http://www.totallyjewish.com/news/national/c-15949/jerusalem-ad-axed-for-misleading-tourists/<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=f7d49a4a13&e=ffc6959b5f>

Analysis / Opinion / Human interest
*
*******A Gazan's reflection on the murder of Jews in Itamar / Samar
Sabawi<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=0a37f3cc26&e=ffc6959b5f>
*
19 Mar -- The morning news of the Itamar murders broke out, I got a call
from my father, a man from Gaza whose entire life was derailed by Israel's
occupation of his land. He was fuming: "nothing could justify these murders"
he yelled  "even if we were to bring up the occupation, the harassment, the
brutality of Israel's army and settlers - the minute we entertain an act so
criminal as to kill a baby in cold blood, we become no better than those
whose acts we despise." I posted his comment on my Facebook wall. A day
later, some of my Jewish friends sent me messages inquiring if it was true
that Palestinians in Gaza celebrate the killing of Jews. One of them asked
"Is there a custom to give out sweets after such events?"  ... I began an
extensive search on the internet. There were references to Gaza’s
celebrations in a variety of international media websites including Fox News
and Washington Post, but all the references pointed to one original source –
three photos by AFP cameraman posted on Getty
images<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=70e0d93123&e=ffc6959b5f>,
so I followed the trail. The three original photos starred the same man with
the same small sweets platter ... There was nothing in the photos to convey
a sense of joy or celebration: there were no crowds, no smiling faces, no
banners, no flags and no scarfs… in fact, no people appeared in the photos
except for the man with the platter and his subjects. This was highly
unusual for a Gaza celebration ... But even if we were to assume that this
lone man with the sweets platter was genuinely celebrating, how on earth
does something like that make international media? One Palestinian man in a
population of 1.5 million offering a tray of desserts? ... Did the same
newspapers that published these photos also publish photos of busloads of
Israeli tourists standing on a hill top celebrating while watching
phosphorus rain fall on Palestinians during Israel’s bombardment of Gaza in
2009? The double standard here is astonishing ... The photos of so-called
‘Gaza celebrations’ are becoming an internet sensation because they offer
desperately needed proof that Palestinians are evil in nature..[See also A
Brand New Myth for the Israeli
Right<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=ad8da41302&e=ffc6959b5f>,
which has all three photos]
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=16728<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=77380910d5&e=ffc6959b5f>

*Ahmed Masoud: Was I switched at
birth?*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=d96496c7bf&e=ffc6959b5f>
Guardian 19 Mar -- After Ahmed Masoud was born in Gaza, the hospital was
bombed. His father rushed to the special care unit – but did he take home
the right baby?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/mar/19/ahmed-masoud-born-gaza-hospital-separated<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=7e6938e36e&e=ffc6959b5f>

Iraq

*Friday: 2 Iraqis killed, 16
wounded*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=7527adc8a7&e=ffc6959b5f>
Thousands of Iraqis attended protests again this Friday; however, many of
the protests were in solidarity with Shi’ite protesters in Bahrain.
Meanwhile, at least two Iraqis were killed and 16 more were wounded ... both
Iraq and the United States are
weighing<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=0c7d385b99&e=ffc6959b5f>the
pros and cons of retaining U.S. troops in Iraq beyond the end of this
year. If they do not stay, the* *State Department could take
over<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=7a10f73235&e=ffc6959b5f>many
of their operations while still allowing the United State to fulfill a
commitment to withdraw all U.S. military troops by the end of the year.
http://original.antiwar.com/updates/2011/03/18/friday-2-iraqis-killed-16-wounded/<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=49a85da133&e=ffc6959b5f>

*10 reasons Iraq was no cakewalk / Medea Benjamin & Charles
Davis*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=3904990e49&e=ffc6959b5f>
19 Mar -- March 19 marks the eighth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, a
nation that had no weapons of mass destruction and was not involved in the
9/11 attacks. It was sold to the American public as a war to defend our
nation and free the Iraqi people. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul
Wolfowitz said our soldiers would be greeted as liberators and that Iraqi
oil money would pay for the reconstruction. Vice President Dick Cheney said
the military effort would take "weeks rather than months." And Defense
Secretary Assistant Ken Adelman predicted that "liberating Iraq would be a
cakewalk." Eight years on, it’s time to look back at that "cakewalk." ... A
January <http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=b5975cbbfb&e=ffc6959b5f>2008
analysis<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=4cd0c7666f&e=ffc6959b5f>
by
British polling firm Opinion Research Business, meanwhile, estimated "that
over 1,000,000 Iraqi citizens have died as a result of the conflict which
started in 2003."
http://original.antiwar.com/medea-benjamin-davis/2011/03/18/10-reasons-iraq-was-no-cakewalk/<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=a681b0e9ed&e=ffc6959b5f>

U.S.

*US agrees to improve human rights
record*<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=396d4a1d10&e=ffc6959b5f>
GENEVA (AP) 18 Mar -- The United States on Friday disavowed torture and
pledged to treat terror suspects humanely, but set aside calls to drop the
death penalty, as the United Nations carried out its first review of
Washington's human rights record. As part a groundbreaking commitment to
improvement under the Obama administration, the U.S. joined the 47-nation
Human Rights Council in 2009. And in doing so, submitted to more
international scrutiny.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110318/ap_on_re_eu/un_un_us_human_rights<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=fc8f4e8660&e=ffc6959b5f>




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Following Itamar killings, village of Awarta faced mass arrests, violence
and massive destruction during five days of curfew
Mar 19, 2011 09:04 pm | International Solidarity Movement

During the five-day curfew in the village of Awarta, south of Nablus, the
Israeli military raided homes and detained around 300 people, the youngest
14 years old. Some of the men were taken to the local boy school where they
had to leave their fingerprints and DNA and some were taken to the military
base at Huwwra checkpoint. According to the mayor, Qays Awwad, 55 men are
still in Israeli custody. Some of the detainees reported that they had been
abused by the soldiers while they were detained and handcuffed. It has been
reported that a 75-year-old woman was handcuffed and had to sit on the
ground while the soldiers went through her home, and that an 80-year-old
woman was beaten by soldiers.

Three Scandinavian ISM activists were in Awarta during the five-day curfew,
from Saturday afternoon until Wednesday noon. From the roofs of people’s
houses they witnessed how the Israeli soliders went into homes, arrested men
and made the families wait outside while they raided their homes, resulting
in large scale damage to property. The ISM activists also visited homes that
soldiers had searched to find broken windows, cut fuse-cables, smashed
furniture, and polluted drinking water caused by Israeli soldiers.

Hundreds of soldiers entered the village in military vehicles early on the
morning of the 12th of March, following the murder of five members of a
settler family in the nearby illegal Israeli settlement of Itamar. According
to the soldiers, they were searching for the murderer and would continue
until they found one. One soldier told ISM activists, ”We will search this
village until we find someone.”  In the process of ”searching” the houses,
the soldiers damaged framed pictures, furniture, TV sets, gas heaters,
smashed holes in floors and walls, stole money and jewlery, and poured
liquids over computers. The Israeli forces occupied around 30 houses to
sleep in during the four nights they remained in Awarta. In some of the
houses they evicted the families, who had to seek shelter outdoors or in
neighbour's homes during the night; in others they forced the families to
stay in one room as the soldiers occupied the rest of the house. In occupied
houses the soldiers defecated in the rooms and used the families' bed sheets
as toilet paper.

A lot of the houses were ”searched” and wrecked up to three times over five
days. The soldiers did not seem to follow any apparent pattern when choosing
which house to search or whom to arrest; ”It all looked very random ” one
activist said. In at least one case, on Monday the 14th of March, the
soldiers still did not know the name of the man that they had previously
arrested and had to ask his family for it. The man that they had arrested
was village council member Salim Qawaric. Approximately 25 soliders entered
his house, causing severe damage on the family’s property while the family
had to wait in the backyard. The following day the soldiers came back and
searched the home once again, resulting in further damage to the family’s
home and property.

The ISM activists were not allowed to take pictures, and when they did it
anyway, the soldiers pointed their guns at them shouting: ”Do not take
pictures!” One of the activists had her memory card stolen by a soldier who
took her camera from her by force.

During the curfew, many families ran short of gas, food, water and medicine.

There have been numerous reports of physical abuse. According to
eyewitnesses, Mashmod Zaqah, 28, had his hands cuffed behind his back and
was blindfolded before he was beaten by at least six soldiers during a
period of two hours; periodically he lost consciousness and couldn't feel
his legs or fingers. His family managed to smuggle him to Rafidia hospital
in Nablus. He suffered a dislocated shoulder, back injuries, and a badly
twisted ankle.

Accourding to eyewitnesses, around 300 Israeli settlers, of whom some were
masked, entered the village on Saturday the 12th of March and threw stones
at windows, injuring two Awarta residents by breaking their arms. Villagers
tried to protect homes while Israeli soldiers responded by shooting teargas
at the villagers.

It has been reported that children were bitten by the Israeli military dogs
that the soldiers had with them. A young physically disabled man was bitten
by a dog which resulted in his hospitalisation. Loay Medjet Abdet is now
scared to go inside his own home because he believes the dogs will attack
him again.

For the activists, it was clear that the repression against Awarta was only
a form of collective punishment. When one activist asked: ”Why do you have
to punish all this people?” The solider responded with: ”We have to punish
these people so they will understand.”

Even though this kind of systematic collective punishment is illegal
according to International law, is it frequently used by the Israeli
military all over the West Bank and in Gaza.

When medical vehicles tried to access the area they were stopped by Israeli
forces. ISM activists went to the checkpoint near Awarta on March 15 and
reported that ambulances were being held several hours before they could
enter the village. As an occupying force, Israel is obligated under article
56 of the Geneva Conventions not to hinder the work of medical personnel in
a conflict zone.
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Report: Palestinian anti-wall activist tortured, threatened with rape and
execution by Shin Bet because of BDS activities
Mar 19, 2011 08:53 pm | Alex Kane

The Israeli government’s repression of the boycott, divestment and sanctions
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growing ever more harsh. Domestically, earlier this month, “the
Knesset
plenum…approved in its first reading a ‘boycott law,’ which would levy harsh
punitive fines on Israelis who call for academic or economic boycotts
against Israeli institutions,” according to
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While the anti-boycott bill is aimed at shutting up internal Israeli calls
for BDS<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=02947fbfaf&e=ffc6959b5f>,
much more punitive measures continue to be inflicted on Palestinian
activists.

Jesse Rosenfeld, reporting for
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an exclusive report on the alleged torture of Mohammad
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a key organizer in the non-violent resistance campaign against the West Bank
separation barrier. After returning from Norway in 2009, where he met with
“Norwegian socialist movements and BDS activists, as well as members of the
national Parliament, including the Norwegian finance minister,” Othman was
arrested at the West Bank-Jordan border. The interview with Rosenfeld marks
the first time Othman has spoken out about his conditions in prison.

Othman tells Rosenfeld that:

He was psychologically and physically tortured by Shin Bet interrogators. He
highlighted how interrogators pressed him for details about his activities
in the BDS campaign abroad, asked about the the grassroots Stop the Wall
movement, and probed his meetings with Norwegian parliamentarians and
activists.

In Israeli military court, the military prosecution tried unsuccessfully to
prove that he was acting as an agent for Hezbollah. But Othman said that
attempts to force him to confess to working with Hezbollah were merely a
pretext to jail him and not what actually interested the Shin Bet.

“They spent over 25 days focused on trying to find out about my boycott
contacts and activist contacts in Norway. They were particularly interested
in talking about my work with a Jewish American woman in drafting a boycott
call,” said Othman, who detailed the brutal methods his interrogators used
to try to extract information and confessions from him. “I was told by an
interrogator that if I’m released before their investigation is complete,
that they would kill me, that they would shoot me in the head,” he recalled.

Kept in a tiny cell that could only fit a small mattress and subjected to
extreme hot and cold temperatures, Othman says psychological terror gave way
to physical torture. “At one point they tied me in stress positions for five
hours. They showed pictures of my sisters and told me they would rape them.
They threatened me with rape.”

*Alex Kane, a freelance journalist based in New York City, blogs on
Israel/Palestine and Islamophobia at
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where this post originally appeared.
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Arabs in Libya, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria are literally dying for democracy
(and in the U.S. we pat ourselves on the back for going out to vote for
Obama)
Mar 19, 2011 11:57 am | Seham

and other news from the Arab uprisings:

Latest Developments
Libya Live Blog - March
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As the uprising in Libya continues, we update you with the latest
developments from our correspondents, news agencies and citizens across the
globe.
http://english.aljazeera.net/http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/africa/libya-live-blog-march-19

Gaddafi attacks Libya's Zintan - Al
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CAIRO, March 19 (Reuters) - A witness told Al Arabiya television on Saturday
that Zintan in western Libya was being bombarded and Libyan leader Muammar
Gaddafi's tanks were approaching the town. "Now we are being bombed in
Zintan from more than one direction: from the north and the south," said the
witness, who was not identified. "There are tanks heading towards the
southern entrance of Zintan, around 20 to 30 tanks, which are hitting the
city and residential areas in the south," he said.
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/gaddafi-attacks-libyas-zintan-al-arabiya

Report: 26 killed in Libya after Gadhafi forces strike rebel-held
Benghazi<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=68f3fd3b48&e=ffc6959b5f>
The advance into Libya's second city of 670,000 people appears to be an
attempt to preempt Western military intervention which diplomats say will
come only after an international meeting in Paris later on Saturday.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/report-26-killed-in-libya-after-gadhafi-forces-strike-rebel-held-benghazi-1.350196?localLinksEnabled=false

Libyan rebels say their war plane downed in
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CAIRO (AFP) -- Libyan rebels acknowledged that a warplane which crashed in
flames in their Benghazi stronghold early Saturday belonged to them and that
it was shot down by Moammar Gadhafi's forces.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=370165

Explosions in Benghazi, residents say Gaddafi forces
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BENGHAZI, Libya, March 19 (Reuters) - Large explosions were heard in the
eastern Libyan city of Benghazi early on Saturday, and residents said that
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces were attacking the rebel stronghold.
Libya had declared a unilateral ceasefire on Friday after the United Nations
Security Council authorised a no-fly zone over Libya, but the United States
had said the ceasefire was not being respected. A fighter jet could be heard
over Benghazi, a Reuters correspondent in the city said, adding that the
explosions were strong enough to shake a building.
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/explosions-in-benghazi-residents-say-gaddafi-forces-attack

Gaddafi forces squeeze rebel-held
Misrata-residents<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=5c26ffe1f3&e=ffc6959b5f>
ALGIERS/TUNIS, March 19 (Reuters) - Residents of the rebel-held Libyan city
of Misrata said government snipers were shooting people from rooftops on
Saturday and the hospital could not operate on the wounded because it had no
anaesthetic. Misrata, about 200 km (130) miles east of Tripoli, is the last
big rebel stronghold in the west of the country and people living there say
forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are still trying to retake the
city despite a ceasefire.
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/gaddafi-forces-squeeze-rebel-held-misrata-residents

Libya violence continues amid
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US diplomat backs rebel claims of truce violations by Gaddafi's forces
following UN authorisation of no-fly zone.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/03/201131934914112208.html<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=c4b694adb2&e=ffc6959b5f>

LIVE: Libyan Unrest:Gaddafi forces are approaching Benghazi and are within
50km of the city<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=c68929d3d1&e=ffc6959b5f>
We are tracking the latest developments to keep you updated on the situation
on the ground. There are interactive maps located in the Protest map
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keep up with the latest movements. You can also click on our links to
follow the latest Live Libya Blogs and featured twitters. On the Go? -Follow
us on Twitter @Feb17Libya<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=2d9faf6fc1&e=ffc6959b5f>for
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Qaddafi Bombards Rebel Cities, Defies UNO, Juan
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The government of Muammar Qaddafi is making a wideranging attempt to
dominate as much of the country as possible before Western powers begin
patrolling Libya’s skies with fighter jets, probably on Saturday night or
Sunday. Aljazeera Arabic is reporting mid-morning Saturday Libyan time that
hundreds of people have been wounded in Benghazi by the heavy bombardment to
which Qaddafi forces have subjected the rebel center. Government troops are
said to have entered the environs of the city and put some rebel forces to
flight. Residents are shown alleging that Qaddafi’s forces are continuously
bombarding Ajdabiya and Benghazi with indiscriminate tank and heavy
artillery fire, hitting civilian apartment buildings and killing and
wounding women and children in them. There is heavy fighting at
Magrun<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=b06726d990&e=ffc6959b5f>just
to the south of Benghazi, according to Aljazeera’s English web site.
http://www.juancole.com/2011/03/qaddafi-bombards-rebel-cities-defies-uno.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+juancole%2Fymbn+%28Informed+Comment%29

Developing: UN implements no-fly zone over Libya, French aircraft
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy spoke to the press from Paris just before
11 a.m. EST. He confirmed that there would be U.N.-mandated military action
to implement a no-fly zone over Libya in response to the violence and broken
cease-fire in the country. Sarkozy said that all participants in Saturday's
Paris summit, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, British Prime
Minister David Cameron, an African Union representative, a European Union
representative and Arab leaders, endorsed the plan.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/19/developing-un-implements-no-fly-zone-over-libya-french-aircraft-confirmed/

Diplomat: Jordan, Morocco, Qatar, UAE at Libya
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PARIS (AFP) -- Jordan, Morocco, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are the
Arab nations attending Saturday's summit in Paris on action in Libya, a
diplomat told AFP
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=370166

Sarkozy says air forces in action over
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PARIS, March 19 (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Western
air forces, with Arab League approval, had gone into action on Saturday over
Libya and were preventing Muammar Gaddafi's forces attacking the rebel city
of Benghazi. "As of now, our planes are preventing air attacks on the city
of Benghazi," he said adding that military action supported by France,
Britain, the United States and Canada and backed by Arab nations could be
halted if Gaddafi stopped his forces attacking. French planes were also
ready to strike Libyan tanks.
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/sarkozy-says-air-forces-in-action-over-libya

French reconnaissance planes over Libya
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PARIS, March 19 (Reuters) - French reconnaissance planes were flying over
Libya on Saturday, a French military source told Reuters at 1415 GMT, as
world powers met in Paris to coordinate a U.N.-mandated military
intervention. "There are French reconnaissance aircraft over Libya," the
source said.
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/french-reconnaissance-planes-flying-over-libya--french-military

Britain says "time for action" in
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LONDON, March 19 (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has broken the
ceasefire and will face urgent action to prevent more civilian deaths,
British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Saturday. "Colonel Gaddafi has
made this happen. He has lied to the international community, he has
promised a ceasefire, he has broken that ceasefire," Cameron told British
television reporters after a meeting of international leaders in Paris. "He
continues to brutalise his own people and so the time for action has come.
It needs to be urgent, we have to enforce the will of the United Nations and
we cannot allow the slaughter of civilians to continue."
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/paris-uk-pm-cameron-says-time-for-urgent-action-has-come-in-liby

World leaders discuss Libya
action<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=2623b6cdef&e=ffc6959b5f>
Meeting in Paris follows UN resolution allowing no-fly zone and possible
military action against Gaddafi's regime.
http://english.aljazeera.net//news/europe/2011/03/2011319132058782326.html

Qadhafi Reacts
Claims of Gaddafi defying
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Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, is facing a stark ultimatum to either
stop the attacks on civilians, or face military action. But even after the
ceasefire was announced, people on the ground were telling Al Jazeera of new
attacks. An opposition spokesperson told Al Jazeera English he could hear
shelling from tanks as the army tried to enter the city of Misurata.
Witnesses speaking to our Arabic sister channel said the city of Ajdabiya,
further east, was also being bombarded. The Libyan government has denied the
claims, as Al Jazeera's Gerald Tan reports
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra6rhSSJo9Y&feature=youtube_gdata

Gadhafi: UN resolution endorsing no-fly zone is 'blatant
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Embattled Libya leader tells Al Jazeera the UN has no justification to
interfere in his country; France ambassador to the UN says he expects
foreign military intervention in Libya on Saturday.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/gadhafi-un-resolution-endorsing-no-fly-zone-is-blatant-colonialism-1.350134?localLinksEnabled=false<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=6f4429c377&e=ffc6959b5f>

Gaddafi says 'hell' awaits anyone who attacks
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Muammar Gaddafi threatened to turn into “hell” the lives of anyone who
attacks Libya in line with a UN Security Council resolution passed
overnight.
http://www.citypress.co.za/International/News/Gaddafi-says-hell-awaits-anyone-who-attacks-Libya-20110318<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=25aa8969b6&e=ffc6959b5f>

Western Reactions
Summit set to decide Libya
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Leaders from Britain, the US, France and allied Arab countries are set to
meet in Paris to discuss military action in Libya under a UN resolution.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-africa-12793919

Libya's Gaddafi given
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US President Barack Obama says the Gaddafi regime must follow the UN's
ceasefire demands or face military action
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-africa-12791910<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=f6b89ae804&e=ffc6959b5f>
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Clinton unimpressed by Libya cease-fire, says Kadafi must
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton brushes aside Libya's claim that
it will observe a cease-fire with rebels; she calls for a pullback of Libyan
troops and insists that Moammar Kadafi leave power. President Obama will
speak on the Libya situation Friday. WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton on Friday brushed aside Libya's claim that it would observe a
cease-fire in fighting with rebels, and she insisted that the nation's
crisis could only end with the departure of Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi.
http://feeds.latimes.com/%7Er/latimes/middleeast/%7E3/5DJD-GLdlG4/sc-dc-0319-obama-libya-20110318,0,1268119.story<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=9219a73a52&e=ffc6959b5f>

Inside the White House-Congress meeting on
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President* Barack Obama* hosted 18 senior lawmakers at the White House on
Friday afternoon to "consult" with them about the new plan to intervene in
Libya<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=9e2d628e50&e=ffc6959b5f>,
exactly 90 minutes before Obama
announced<http://mondoweiss.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d38ef747c2061bb9c6137961&id=0145e142a7&e=ffc6959b5f>that
plan to the world and one day after his administration
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