Israeli authorities bulldozed over 100 gravestones in a 12th-century Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem overnight Saturday, the Al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage said.
The foundation said three bulldozers, two trucks and around 20 workers entered the historic Mamilla (Ma’man Allah) cemetery at 11 p.m. and destroyed over 100 gravestones, loading rubble from the gravestones into a truck.
Advisor of the Islamic movement in Israel Sheikh Ali Abu Sheikha notified the foundation of the (...)
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Foundation: Israel razes Muslim gravestones
28 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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Gaza flotilla activists: One of our ships was sabotaged
28 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
Israeli activist says his ship, which is docked in Greece’s Piraeus port, was found with its propeller shaft broken which he believes was a deliberate attempt at sabotage.
One of the ships due to participate in the Gaza flotilla was deliberately tampered with while it was docked in Greece’s Piraeus port, Gaza flotilla activists told Haaretz on Monday.
The ship, due to carry Greek, Norwegian, and Swedish passengers to Gaza, was found with its propeller shaft broken, the ship’s (...) -
Getting on board with peace in Israel
28 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentAn Israeli American explains why she will be among many boat passengers trying to break through Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Later this month an American ship, the Audacity of Hope, will leave Greece on a journey to the Gaza Strip to attempt to break Israel’s blockade. It will join an expected nine other ships flying numerous flags and carrying hundreds of passengers from around the world. I will be one of those passengers.
I am an Israeli Jewish American. I was born in Israel, (...) -
Avoid Gaza Flotilla, Israel Warns Foreign Journalists
28 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
Israel threatened Sunday to bar for up to a decade any foreign journalist who boards a flotilla seeking to challenge an Israeli naval blockade of Gaza.
Oren Helman, the director of the Government Press Office, sent a letter to registered foreign correspondents here asserting that the flotilla, scheduled to sail this week, was illegal and that participation in it, even as a reporter, was “liable to lead to participants being denied entry into the State of Israel for ten years, to the (...) -
Israel is tearing apart the Jewish people
27 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentIsrael has never had a government that so blatantly violates the core values of liberal democracy, which dismisses identities of 85% of the world’s Jewry.
In June last year, Peter Beinart published an article in the New York Review of Books that created quite a storm by pointing out the deep estrangement between the young generation of American Jews and Israel. A year later, it is time to take stock.
Unfortunately, the situation has only grown a lot worse. In my travels to Europe I (...) -
China Pledges Continued Support for European Debt
27 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
China Pledges Continued Support for European Debt
26/06/2011
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday said China will continue to buy euro-denominated bonds to support Europe, in China’s latest public endorsement of the efforts to contain a potential debt crisis in the common currency area.
The remarks by Mr. Wen, who was in Budapest on a five-day European tour that will also take him to London and Berlin, came as European leaders wrangle over mechanisms to provide fresh financing to (...) -
The Audacity of Hope: U.S. Peace Activists to Sail to Gaza in Humanitarian Flotilla
26 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
Dozens of Americans hope to set sail this week on a U.S.-flagged ship, “The Audacity of Hope,” as part of an international flotilla which aims to challenge Israel’s embargo of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian solidarity activists are setting sail from a number of ports just over a year after Israeli forces killed nine activists on an aid boat called the Mavi Marmara, which was part of the first such international flotilla.
Israel says it will again use force to stop the aid flotilla from (...) -
Freedom Riding to Gaza
26 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
Fifty years ago, freedom riders traveled by bus into the U.S. South. Now American freedom riders are joining their allies from around the world on a flotilla bound for Gaza. The U.S. ship is called The Audacity of Hope. The heroes on this ship have pledged to sail unarmed and to refuse to use violence. The Israeli military, which continues to illegally blockade Gaza, causing endless suffering to the Gazan people, has pledged to use violent force to prevent the ships getting through. (...)
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’Freedom Flotilla 2’ prepares to sail to Gaza in next few days
24 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
While Israeli and US officials have worked to dissuade the Freedom Flotilla from setting sail to Gaza next week, the flotilla participants have vowed to go ahead with their plan to bring aid and support to the people of the Gaza Strip, who remain under an Israeli-imposed siege that began in 2007.
At a recent press conference by an Israeli naval commander, the commander said he did not believe that the flotilla would contain weapons, and acknowledged that the passengers on the boats are (...) -
Trades reveal China shift from dollar
21 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
Trades reveal China shift from dollar
By Jamil Anderlini in Beijing and Tracy Alloway in London
Published: June 20 2011 20:07
China began diversifying away from the US dollar in earnest in the first four months of this year, most likely by buying far more European government debt than US dollar assets, according to estimates from Standard Chartered Bank.
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