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Ioa issues tender for building 32 new settlement units in bethlehem

January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

The Israeli movement of peace now revealed that the Israel land administration invited a tender on Sunday for the building of 32 new housing units in the Beitar Illit settlement which was built on Bethlehem lands.

The leftist movement strongly denounced the Israeli settlement expansion, saying that the Israeli government had issued tenders for 450 new settlement units since the beginning of the year.

It also pointed out that while the Israeli government is discussing the bill of evacuating and compensating the settlers in the West Bank, it continues to expand settlements there.

Meanwhile, in a report received by the PIC, the civil coalition for the defense of Palestinian rights in occupied Jerusalem said that the IOA escalated its violations of human rights in Jerusalem.

The report underlined that the most prominent violation was represented in the tightening of military measures on Jerusalem on the anniversary of the alleged temple destruction and in the building of a Jewish synagogue in the Buraq yard.

It elaborated that the month of August witnessed the kidnapping of Jerusalemite Palestinians, where the IOF troops abducted citizens for refusing to hand over their house keys.

The IOF troops also stormed Al-Mutran school in Jerusalem and cancelled a graduation ceremony for honoring high school students. They also broke into and ransacked the Jerusalemite club of Beit Hanina, and bared the Zahrat Al-Madaen society and the Hilal Al-Quds club from celebrating the conclusion of their summer camp, according to the report.

Meanwhile, IOF troops confiscated the car of Sheikh Taysir Al-Tamimi, the chief justice of Palestine at the Maale Adumim checkpoint and assaulted him physically.

Furthermore, the IOA demolished five Jerusalemite houses in Beit Hanina, Isawiya and Silwan in August and confiscated the lands of Sawahra town in order to expand the Container checkpoint.

The report also said that Israeli settlers trespassed and confiscated the lands of Al-Husseini and Al-Istanbulli families and prevented students of the orphanage school from passing through these lands to go to their school especially since these lands are the only way leading to their school.

(PIC)

Israel needs war to exist

January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

(source: Press TV)

A former Israeli lecturer has said the entity depends on wars for its existence, warning that the hostility only invites disaster for Tel Aviv.

It is only constant confrontations and standoffs which keep the Israeli society from falling apart, said Ilan Pappe, who used to work as a senior lecturer at the University of Haifa in northern Israel. He also said that the current Israeli government is the result of a colonialist movement. Colonialists, who did not have a country anywhere across the world, were obliged to remain here.

The Israeli regime, therefore, is constantly seeking to ignite new wars; against Lebanon and maybe soon against Iran, but future wars would not succeed and would instead lead the entity into disaster, he added, speaking to the German daily Junge Welt last month.

Kashmir protest victory for democracy India humiliated

January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

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The planned peaceful protest held on Thursday, 27th October 2010, was almost disrupted by officials at the Indian High Commission. They used their political muscle and influence in high office to intimidate the protesters. They even used an official from South African Police Services to bully the peaceful protesters into submission.

Officials of the Indian High Commission asked members of the SAPS to throw the protesters out and to disband the gathering. The convenors of the gathering, Mr. Salman Khan and Mr. Umar Farooq were confronted by the SAPS and asked to leave. Mr. Khan explained that permission to hold the demonstration was granted and that they had every right to hold the protest. They were asked to hold the gathering at a nearby Rose Garden. They refused to do so. The SAPS officer threatened to have them arrested.

Tempers flared and it took the intervention of a senior SAPS Colonel to resolve the impasse. He studied the notification granting the permission and allowed the protest to proceed in front of the Indian High Commission. Viva Democracy!

Officials of the Indian High Commission should realise that civil liberties will not be trampled upon in South Africa as it is commonly done in India.

The Noisy protest group numbered about 50 people. The plight of the oppressed people and their fight for self determination of the Kashmiris was highlighted. In the latest uprising in the Kashmir Valley, July/August/September 2010, 150 civilians were killed by the military and paramilitary forces of the Indian Government.

Mr. Salman Khan said that the Commonwealth Games, currently being held in New Delhi, India, makes a mockery of democracy.

“We have always, right from the beginning accepted the idea of the Kashmiri people deciding their fate by a referendum or plebiscite……………….” Jawaharlal Nehru, in London, January 1951.

These and other sentiments expressed by India’s first Prime Minister have been ignored for six decades.

Netanyahu binational state would be disastrous for Isarael

January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

Comment comes as Prime Minister expected to present Mideast peace initiative after weeks of intense international pressure over the apparent peace talks deadlock.

By Barak Ravid

(source: Haaretz)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected in the coming weeks to put forward a peace initiative in a bid to break through the deadlock in the peace process and extricate Israel from international isolation. Netanyahu has warned in recent days during closed meetings that “a binational state would be disastrous for Israel,” and therefore it is necessary to undertake a political move that will remove this threat.

In recent weeks the prime minister has come under intense international pressure over Israel’s policies. Europe’s unequivocal stance against Israel at the Security Council vote on the issue of the settlements, the rebuke that accompanied the U.S. veto, and the unpleasant telephone exchange with German Chancellor Angela Merkel last week reportedly shook Netanyahu.

Moreover, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations are working together to push through an unprecedented agreement during the Quartet’s meeting in Paris in a week. According to the draft of the agreement that is being passed between the parties, the Quartet will declare that a Palestinian state will be established on the basis of the 1967 borders, with some land swaps.