Palestinian Collaborators in a New Documentary Film on Al-Aqsa TV

By - Adnan Mustafa

Al-Aqsa satellite channel will broadcast a documentary film that includes confessions of Palestinian collaborators. Tomorrow, Thursday 28^th June 2012, at 8:30 pm (Jerusalem timing) a documentary file about Palestinian collaborators

who participated and helped the Israeli army in assassination of a group of prominent Palestinian leaders like Ismail Abu Shanab  and Ibrahim Al-Maqadma (both were pro-Islamic activists and PhD degree in the Islamic University-Gaza).

According to the attached announcement which was on air several times at the channel, some persons speak about their role in role in the assassination of some Palestinians in addition to how they've been victims of Israeli abuse, and forced to collaborate with the Israeli army.

The collaborators' faces are hidden under dark photo effects , but their voices remain clear. It is uncertain whether they were executed or whether they are still alive in detention. Also, it's not clear whether they will be sentenced to death or they were included in amnesty declaration announced by the Government to those who surrender last year.

Al Qassam: Israel kills two Palestinian minors in cold blood in Gaza

Two Palestinian minors were killed on Tuesday morning 19/6/12 by Israeli military near the Israeli military base of Kesofim east of Deir Al Balah in Central Gaza Strip.

Al Qassam correspondent reported that Israeli military forces opened fire at a group of citizens in the area that led to the killing of the two 16 year-olds, Mohammed Bassam Abu Moa’liq and Yousef At-Tilbani.

He added that medical crews who removed the bodies of the two martyrs said that they were killed in cold blood at short range.

The medical sources in Al Aqsa hospital in Central Gaza said that the two bodies were totally disfigured by shelling them after death, it seems.

Israeli military forces claimed at dawn on Tuesday the kidnapping of two Palestinians after they were shot in east of Al Maghazi refugee camp in Central Gaza Strip.

Recent Israeli escalation against Gaza has resulted in the deaths of six Palestinians: Jihad Abu Shabab, Abdullah Hassan Azanin, Mohammed Shabat, Ismail Abu Odeh, Mohammed Abu Moa’liq and Yousef At-Tilbani.

Source: Gaza.Scoop.ps

Israel Bombs Motorcycle, One Palestinian Killed in Rafah

One Palestinian was killed in the latest Israeli bombing in Gaza Strip raises death tool up to 9 Palestinians killed and 10 others wounded in the last 48 hours.

Israeli Army bombed a motorcycle in the southern city of Rafah killing one Palestinian. Egyptian Representative, Yasser Othman, to the Palestinian authority in Ramallah said Egypt is trying to broker a "calm" to end the

Israeli attacks on Gaza, especially that the latest attack from Egyptian borders was not carried out by Palestinians. 


Othan believes that Israel should seize bombing Gaza before Palestinian factions do the same. 

Pulitzer Prize-Winner Rejects Israeli Translation of Book

Writer Alice Walker says an Israeli publisher can't release a new Hebrew edition of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Color Purple," because of Israel's treatment of the Palestinian people.

Walker said in a letter to Yediot Books that Israel practices apartheid. She says Israel must change its policies before her works can be published there.

French advertiser buys 20 percent of Ramaalah Zoom Advertising

Maurice Levy says Publicis purchased a 20 percent stake in the Ramallah-based company Zoom Advertising. Levy, CEO of Publicis, is bringing the French advertising firm into the Palestinian and Israeli communications markets.

Levy announced a deal to buy the Israeli ad agency network BBR Group. On Monday, Publicis said it purchased a 20 percent stake in the Ramallah-based company Zoom Advertising. Publicis, one of the world’s largest advertising holding companies, said in a statement that it is the first publicly listed Western communications group to enter the Palestinian market.

Terms of the deals were not reported, according to Reuters.

The new company, Publicis Zoom, has clients that include Coca-Cola, Peugeot and the Bank of Palestine.

BBR Group, with 220 employees, is also the parent company of other agency brands with clients that include DeLak Motors; the cable TV concern Hot; the banking entity Isracard; Procter & Gamble; the food and beverage company Strauss; and the retailer Super Pharm.

Levy said in a statement that he believes the way to build lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians is through strong economies.

“Symbolically, this speaks to every man’s dream of seeing peace in the Middle East and between the Palestinian and Israeli peoples,” Levy said.

Bashar Masri, the board chairman of Zoom, also expressed his confidence that the deal was a positive signal for the Palestinian private sector.

"Today's deal is a key step towards the goal of fostering an enabling business environment for private sector growth and development, and I am confident that more investments like this one are on the horizon," Masri said in a news release.

Publicis has been expanding its presence in the Middle East with agencies in the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. 

Breaking News: Gaza Under Attsck

Missile just hit Zattoun area. Strikes south of Gaza, navy approaches North Gaza and firing .

Breaking news: Gaza Under Attack

Israel sending civilians to shelters, raised to high alert. Dropping pamphlets east of Gaza warning of boombings. Firing on houses in Deir AlBalah.

Israel denies African migrants' rights, says US

The US state department has criticised Israel's treatment of thousands of African asylum seekers who it says are being denied basic social services.

The US annual report on human rights says that many are

refused refugee status, so cannot access health care.

It is estimated that up to 60,000 migrants, most from Sudan and Eritrea, have entered Israel in recent years.

The report also criticises Israeli government officials for referring to migrants negatively as "infiltrators".

It cites statistics from the UNHCR which show Israel approved just one of the 4,603 new asylum applications it received last year.

The data also shows that more than 6,000 previous cases are still pending.

The US state department notes that Israel has ended the practice of immediately returning asylum seekers who had arrived through Egypt.

In 2010 Israel approved the construction of a barrier along its border with Egypt to try to stop migrants entering the country. Once complete it will run for 250km (155 miles) and include an electric fence and surveillance technology.

But it shows concern over regulations that allow the authorities to reject applications without appeal, and that there is no independent appeal process.

'Cancer' claim

The report acknowledges that once recognised refugees are allowed to work and access social services, but non-governmental organisations are campaigning for greater access to health care, particularly for victims of abuse.

Some right-wing politicians have been criticised for stoking up hatred with speeches comparing "infiltrators" to cancer and calling for migrants to be expelled.

Officials claim the overwhelming majority of migrants are not fleeing persecution and war but that they are economic migrants looking for jobs and a better life.

Tensions in Israel have been rising and on Wednesday a demonstration in Tel Aviv against African migrants turned violent - shop windows were broken and cars were damaged.

The following day Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the violence saying: "I want to make clear that there is no place for the statements nor the actions which we saw last night... we will resolve the problem and we will do it responsibly".

Vatican denies it will recognize East Jerusalem

The Vatican said Tuesday that an economic agreement it is negotiating with Israel will not mean the de facto recognition of Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem.

The Vatican was responding to
allegations that the deal, which involves tax status and other financial issues concerning Church properties in the Holy Land, would result in a recognition of Israel's control of East Jerusalem.

Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of an eventual homeland. Israel annexed East Jerusalem in the 1967 war and in 1980 declared the city its "united and eternal" capital. World powers have not recognized the annexation.

"The agreement on which we have been working concerns the life, activities and fiscal regime of the Catholic Church in Israel," said Monsignor Ettore Balestrero, a Vatican diplomat who is negotiating the agreement.

"In the agreement, we wished to steer clear of territorial disputes. We will not speak about East Jerusalem or places in the West Bank," he told Vatican Radio.

Both sides have been negotiating the agreement for years and there is no indication when they will reach an accord.

Source: Reuters

South Africa Freedom Fighter, Darsot, no more apartheid

The Gaza Center for Political and Development Studies (CPDS), held on Tuesday, 12th of July, a lecture on "The Role of Muslim Community in Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) in
South Africa, "delivered by Ismail Darsot, a South African activist and a conveyer. Darsot managed to confer the "impartial and inhumane" actions, undertaken by the Whites against the Blacks, in general, and Muslim society, in particular .

By Waleed M. Al-Meadana

"No nation shall go through the suffering we went through in the apartheid era," said Darsot. Black people were blocked access to education, and denied rights to claim a voice. The apartheid mentality was basically built on the superiority of the White. South Africans, generally, and the Muslim community, particularly, had not struggled for recognition only; they, rather, battled for their human rights, Darsot spoke out. We sanctioned and boycotted the South African apartheid regime till it collapsed and, thus, came to an end eventually, said the lecturer.

Group Areas Act

This law was issued to oppress and suppress the Blacks in favour of the white supremacy, by which "each nation has its own place to live," said Darsot. Arabs, residing in South Africa, were shortlisted for a 2nd class; indigenous South Africans were stamped for a 3rd class; others for a 4th class and so on. Ironically, Chinese were considered Blacks, while Japanese were reckoned to be Whites.

The Israeli Systematic Apartheid Policy

"The apartheid regime was invented by the White for the benefit of Israel," said Darsot. "The Israeli actions will get even worse before things get better," he said, stressing that Nelson Mandela was a leader because he was locked up in jail for a handful of years. "But what about the Palestinian prisoners, held captive in the Israeli jails," wondered Darsot. Israel, along with the West, distorted democracy; "it is dishonest… and people in the West do not want it ]any longer[," said Darsot. Gaza survived the Israeli war, and that was a miracle. Never had Gaza survived the alluding actions of the Truth Commission, however. "The Truth Commission is the worst thing that happened ever," said Darsot. 

Source: CPDS-Gaza

Jewish Religious Group Thanks Hitler for Committing Holocaust

Israel’s holocaust memorial has been daubed with graffiti saying "Thank you Hitler", in a suspected attack by Jewish religious extremists.

The words were sprayed in Hebrew at the entrance to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, provoking outrage from the Israeli government.

"This is an escalation and an unprecedented crossing of red lines," Minister Yuli Edelstein said, describing the attack as a "spit in the face of Holocaust victims".

Other graffiti at the site said: "Only because of the Holocaust did we receive a state from the UN. If Hitler hadn’t existed, the Zionists would have created him" and "Wake up Jews, the cynical evil regime does not protect us it only endangers us".


Jewish Girl Paints Swastikas on Her Own Door - Busted

Settlement policy could spark third intifada, warn Israeli experts

Israel's settlement construction policies in the West Bank or the burning of a mosque could potentially incite another Palestinian popular uprising, Mideast experts warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week, the Ha 'aretz daily reported on Sunday.

According to the report, the experts told Netanyahu that his plan, announced last week, to build 851 new housing units in West Bank settlements, could trigger a third intifada, especially in light of the prolonged diplomatic stalemate between Israel and the Palestinian National Authority.

One expert projected that the burning of a mosque by Jewish extremists holds the greatest risk for the outbreak of violence.

The National Security Council, a body subordinate to the Prime Minister's Office, initiated the meeting with Netanyahu last Tuesday. Among the academics in attendance were some of Israel's most acclaimed Mideast experts, including professors Emmanuel Sivan, Shimon Shamir, Eyal Zisser and Meir Litvak.

Brig. Gen. (retired) Shalom Harari, a former Arab affairs adviser to the military, was also present, as well as other experts on Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and Iran.

Netanyahu was presented with statistics showing that the outbreak of the first intifada in 1987 and the second intifada in 2000 were both preceded by mass violence and violence perpetrated by individuals, and that a similar trend is currently visible.

The meeting was held as the political arena was abuzz over the upcoming demolition of Uplana, a 30-family neighborhood in the West Bank settlement of Beit El, which the Supreme Court earlier this year ruled was illegally built on privately-owned Palestinian land.

In a bid to appease the settlers and avoid a crisis within his cabinet, Netanyahu said the neighborhood's five buildings would be relocated to a defunct military base near the settlement and announced a plan to build 851 new housing units in several settlements.

The prime minister reportedly did not respond to the experts' warning that implementing plans to build the new apartments in the absence of diplomatic progress could undermine support for the Palestinian leadership, and weaken the PNA's security forces' ability to contain violence in the West Bank.

On Saturday, the former director of Israel's Shin Bet security service echoed those sentiments, warning that deadlocked peace talks could ignite a new intifada or a terror wave.

"We're dealing with fateful issues in Israel; the peace process is deadlocked and we're heading rapidly towards a bi-national state," the Ynet news website quoted Yaakov Peri as saying at a cultural event in the city of Kfar Saba.

Peri, who joins several former security chiefs who have slammed the policies of Netanyahu's government on Iran and the peace process over the past year, starkly predicted that "this is the end of Zionism. We need a new leadership."

Source: Xinhua

Romney aide: After he’s elected, Iran will see there’s a new sheriff in town

In wide-ranging interview, Former ambassador Richard Williamson says U.S. Republican candidate will make military threats against Tehran credible, arm Syria’s rebels, and visit Israel before going anywhere else.

“When Mitt Romney is president, Iran will understand that there is a new sheriff in town and that his position is that the only thing worse than the U.S. using force would be for Iran to have nuclear weapons”, according to Richard Williamson, a senior foreign policy adviser to the Republican presidential candidate.

In a wide-ranging foreign policy interview with Haaretz, Williamson blasted U.S. President Barack Obama’s “feckless and ineffective leadership” on both Iran and Syria, adding that “Iran knows there is no credible military threat from Barack Obama.”

“As Bismarck said: Diplomacy without a credible use of force is like music without instruments. And when Israel has talked about the range of options they may have to consider to protect their own interest, the Obama administration has done its best to make it difficult if not impossible for Israel to do what it must,” he added.

Israel Reneges On Deal That Ended Mass Hunger Strike Of Palestinian Prisoners

www.alternet.org - Israeli authorities have reneged on key provisions of the deal that ended a mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners last month, a new Amnesty International report on Israel’s practice of administrative detention confirms. Amnesty International, the respected human rights group, reports that Israel has
placed 33 Palestinian prisoners in administrative detention since the end of the strike, despite the fact that the deal reportedly stipulated that the Israel Prison Service would not renew administrative detention unless there was “very serious” information on prisoners that would warrant the detention.

Administrative detention is the practice by which the Israeli military locks up Palestinians without charge or trial. Currently, over 300 Palestinian prisoners are being held under administrative detention, which human rights organizations say violates international law.

The Amnesty International report adds to the growing chorus of Palestinian lawyers and activists who say that Israeli prison authorities have violated the core of the deal agreed to by 2,000 prisoners who were on hunger strike.

“While most prisoners held in isolation had been returned to general prison wings, no family visits had been allowed from the Gaza Strip at the time of writing in late May,” the Amnesty report reads. “Additionally, reports that the Israeli military had by the time of writing renewed at least 30 administrative detention orders and issued at least three new ones since the deal was signed suggest that the Israeli authorities may have simply returned to ‘business as usual’ as far as administrative detention is concerned.”

The report’s appendix lists the names of prisoners who have been placed in administrative detention since May 14, the day the prisoner deal was reached. 30 of the prisoners have had their detention orders renewed, while 3 prisoners have been newly placed in administrative detention. 8 prisoners in administrative detention are members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, and another prisoner is Mohammed Ghazal, a university lecturer.

“Israel has used its system of administrative detention – intended as an exceptional measure against people posing an extreme and imminent danger to security – to trample on the human rights of detainees for decades. It is a relic that should be put out to pasture,” said Ann Harrison, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, in a statement.

The continued use of administrative detention is perhaps the most egregious violation of the deal that ended the hunger strike. But other violations have also occurred. While Amnesty reports that most of the prisoners in solitary confinement have been moved to the general prison population, one Palestinian, Dirar Abu Sisi, remains in isolation. This violates the deal, which called for an end to long-term isolation of prisoners.

Meanwhile, two Palestinian prisoners remain on hunger strike. Mahmoud Sarsak, a Palestinian soccer player, has been on hunger strike for 82 days, while Akram Rikhawi has gone without food for 58 days. Sarsak, who has been imprisoned by Israel for three years, is protesting his detention without charge or trial. Rikhawi is similarly protesting his imprisonment without being charged and tried. Both Sarsak’s and Rikhawi’s health has significantly deteriorated, and Sarsak is reportedly close to death. 

By Alex Kane | Sourced from AlterNet 

Protection of Civilians Weekly Report | 30 May - 5 June 2012

Israeli forces kill three armed Palestinians and injure eight civilians in the Gaza Strip. In addition, 48 Palestinians were injured in the West Bank. Settler violence continues. Communities in the Jordan Valley continue to be affected by demolitions and evictions. Also this week, access of fire brigades to a community behind the Barrier delayed. In Gaza, people continue to experience power cuts as high as 12 hours per day throughout the week.

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Bid to expand colony into West Bank

Occupied Jerusalem - The occupied city of Jerusalem is seeking to expand the colony of Gilo beyond Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem with 2,500 new homes in the adjacent West Bank, an Israeli lawyer said on Friday.

Daniel Seiderman, a lawyer active in the anti-colony movement, said the idea was endorsed at a city planning meeting last month.

“Ten days ago the municipal planning board deliberated on a plan to build another 2,500 units in Gilo,” he said. “The precise area is beyond the municipal... line of Gilo.”

He said the intended enlargement would be in addition to plans formally announced last month for 2,000 new homes in Gilo, which lies just a few kilometres north of Bethlehem.

Avraham Burg: Even I – an Israeli – think settlement goods are not kosher

The Independent - Amid the darkness surrounding the Middle East peace process, we now see a ray of light. Since 2009, the United Kingdom has been taking measures, in accordance with European consumer protection rules, to ensure that settlement products – goods you might find on your supermarket shelves that have
been produced in the occupied Palestinian territories – are no longer labelled as "made in Israel".

After a meeting of the EU Council of Foreign Ministers last month, several European member states now appear ready to follow the British initiative. Denmark has already announced it will do so. Member states also committed to ensure that settlement products were excluded from preferential treatment under the EU-Israel Association Agreement.

Contrary to what you may think, EU member states which take these measures act in Israel's interest. They do so because they take steps that defend and reinforce the Green Line, the pre-1967 border between Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.

Israeli Settlers Under Israeli Soldiers Protection, Attack Palestinians

In the last few days different actions have taken place in the village of Tuqu', south of Bethlehem. The village is threaten by the expansion of Teqoa and Noqedim illegal settlements and their connected civilian outposts . On Saturday 24th May, Palestinian farmers, Israeli and international activists reached the farmland of the village that they have been not allowed to cultivate for more than five years due to their vicinity to Teqoa D outpost. They worked the land and took care

of the olive trees and as they came closer to the outpost, a number of the settlers approached and were joined by the army, who prevented them from working. Soldiers declared the area a 'closed military zone' in order to ensure that the farmers and activists could not come close to the illegal settlement but also the private Palestinian land, but did not try to remove the settlers from private Palestinian land.

A few days later, settlers put an Israeli flag on the roof of a Palestinian house located in the farmland, whose inhabitants abandoned it due to their close proximity to the settlement and exposure to settlers' attack. The day after, the villagers together with Israeli and international activists marched to the house in order to remove the flag and found that settlers had removed it just before their arrival, so they replaced it with a Palestinian one. A small group of farmers and activists walked to the area bordered by the outpost of Teqoa D and was once again approached by settlers and by the army. As the tension arose, three Israeli activists were brutally arrested and one of them reported a hand injury. Soldiers unsuccessfully tried to arrest three Palestinians, injuring two of them, while a settler hit a elderly farmer in his stomach. The area was again proclaimed a closed military zone, so activists and farmers were chased away.

The following day, settlers organized a march on the paved road that links the eastern part of the settlement of Teqoa with Teqoa B, C and D, which encroaches on Palestinian private farmland.

On the 1st of June, the farmers returned to their land, finding that the army was positioned not far from the Palestinian house. The villagers managed to work the land around the building but were prevented from reaching the eastern part of the lands by Israeli soldiers, who threw sound bombs toward them. Villagers said they will not desist from claiming and working on their land and will return for similar actions

Supermodel Pure Jewish Blood!!

Supermodel Bar Refaeli was threatened by a group of fanatic Israelis not to marry a goyim (none Jew) resulted in breaking up with Leonardo DiCaprio.  

Last week, a headline hit almost every newspaper in many different languages, including Arabic, that the Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli is on top of Maxim's hottest woman in the world, though, she says ‘I don’t get hit on by guys. No one flirts with me.’

 Two years ago, Rafaeli received a threating letter from Marzel, a well-known stalwart among Israel's ultra-nationalists, on behalf of an organization named "Lehava." In Hebrew, this means "flame:; it is also the Hebrew acronym for "Preventing Assimilation in the Holy Land."

Tel-Aviv, spent a fortune on labeling the city as gay paradise city to claim human rights patriotic city in the same time to cover up the occupation and settlers crimes against the Palestinians in West bank and east Jerusalem, fails its own citizen, Supermodel Bar Refaeli,  on the simple human right principle of freedom to choose who to live with.