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By Hugh Lovatt | ( Your Middle East) | – – “Israeli society continues to turn a blind eye to the suffering it inflicts on Palestinians” An end to the violence will only happen when the Israeli public decides to move in the direction of de-occupation, something that is unlikely to occur so long as […]

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Palestine: Hebron at eye of the storm as death toll rises from Squatter attacks

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By: Killian Redden | Ma’an News Agency | – – HEBRON (Ma’an) — As the death toll has risen across the occupied Palestinian territory, the southern West Bank city of Hebron has found itself at the center of violence. In just over a month, Israeli forces have killed 10 Palestinians in the sharply divided city. […]

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The Intifada, Viral Death, and the Facebook Fallacy

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By Julie Poucher Harbin, Editor, | Interview with Rebecca Stein | ISLAMICommentary | – – There are varying explanations for the uptick in violence in Israel-Palestine over the past few days, but one explanation that appears to have caught on with the Israeli government and much Western media, according to Duke University cultural anthropologist Rebecca […]

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Jewish Squatter attack on Leader of Rabbis for Human Rights caught on Video

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Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A Jewish settler on Friday attacked the head of the Israeli group Rabbis for Human Rights during a Palestinian olive harvest in the Nablus district, Israeli media reported. Head of the group, Rabbi Arik Ascherman, was with a group of Israeli and internationals activists who had […]

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Forever Refugees – Palestinian Families expelled by Israelis to Syria lose Homes Again

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By: Mai Abu Moghli, Nael Bitarie, and Nell Gabiam | Ma’an News Agency | – – Similarly to their Syrian counterparts, Palestinians in Syria have been severely affected by the ongoing war. Syrian towns and villages, as well as Palestinian refugee camps, have been subject to repeated attacks and prolonged sieges by troops loyal to […]

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Palestinians need hope, not calm

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By John V Whitbeck | (Middle East Eye) | – – It is a sad reality that, unless Jewish lives are lost, Israelis and the Western world tend to feel that the occupation is not a problem Since the current upsurge of violence in Israel and occupied Palestine began, numerous foreign leaders, as well as […]

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Armed Israeli Squatters Attack Palestinian Hebron Homes as Fateh calls General Strike

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By IMEMC News | – – Armed Israeli settlers — under Israeli military protection — attacked Palestinian homes with stones and empty glass bottles to the east of Hebron city, on Tuesday, according to local and security sources. Sources said, according to WAFA, that Jewish settlers from the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba, built illegally […]

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The war of information in Israel and Palestine

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By: Megan Hanna | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – Recent headlines by Western news outlets, such as the BBC, CNN and The Telegraph, in the coverage of the recent spate of violence currently unfolding in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory have tended to focus on the Israeli victims of the unrest. On the […]

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Israel’s crackdown on protesters is illegal, costly and reckless

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By Julie M. Norman | (The Conversation) | – – The escalation of violence in Israel-Palestine since the start of October has led to seven Israelis killed by Palestinians in a spate of stabbing attacks and at least 30 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces, including three 13-year old Palestinians killed in separate demonstrations by live […]