Palestine: Information with Provenance
Palestine: Information with Provenance
1: Al-Ahram Weekly 2: CounterPunch 3: Electronic Intifada 4: Ha'aretz 5: MondoWeiss 6: New York Review of Books 7: Stop the Wall 8: The Guardian
#108699 Letter to MAP re Atzmon jazz concert
by Tony Greenstein, 30 April 2009
»Email sent by Greenstein to his buddies to join the campaign to dissociate MAP from Gilad Atzmon
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:59:18 +0000
From: tonygreenstein@yahoo.com
Subject: Letter to MAP re Atzmon jazz concert
To: tonygreenstein@yahoo.co ...
#109735 Report of the Independent Fact Finding Committee On Gaza: No Safe Place
by Independent Fact Finding Committee On Gaza, 30 April 2009
#111817 
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century
by Adina Hoffman, 30 April 2009
Product Description
Beautifully written, and composed with a novelist's eye for detail, this book tells the story of an exceptional man and the culture from which he emerged. Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriyya ...
#112163 A tirade against Israel
by Gamal Essam El-Din in Al-Ahram Weekly, 30 April 2009
Parliament speaker Fathi Sorour refuses to join Israeli efforts to isolate the Iranian president, reports Gamal Essam El-Din
...
#112164 Fatah's turn to say no
by Amira Howeidy in Al-Ahram Weekly, 30 April 2009
This week's new round of Fatah-Hamas talks ended as they were about to start. Amira Howeidy finds out why
...
#112165 Logical to them
by Khaled Amayreh in Al-Ahram Weekly, 30 April 2009
How different is Lieberman from Netanyahu? asks Khaled Amayreh
...
#112166 Clinton's rough start
by Ramzy Baroud in Al-Ahram Weekly, 30 April 2009
For a US administration supposedly set on peace, baiting Israel with the lure of isolating Iran seems a curious beginning, writes Ramzy Baroud*
...
#112167 Divergent views
by Jim Zogby in Al-Ahram Weekly, 30 April 2009
Polls show that Obama has enough support within his popular base to transform US policy towards Israel and Palestine should he decide to, writes James Zogby*
...
#108554 The McCarthyism That Horowitz Built
by Dana L. Cloud in CounterPunch, 30 April 2009
»In early April, the jury in Ward Churchill's civil trial against the University of Colorado found, in his favor, that the University had fired him because of critical remarks he made after
the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. While Ch ...
#108558 Tony Blair and the full measure of justice
by Joy Ellison in Electronic Intifada, 30 April 2009
»An elderly Palestinian woman grabbed my hand and held it over her chest. "Feel my heartbeat," she said. "We are really afraid of the settlers." Only half an hour before she took my hand, a
group of 20 settlers from Maon settlement entered the ...
#108559 The Palestinian Authority's authoritarian turn
by Ben White in Electronic Intifada, 30 April 2009
The recent attempts to intimidate a critic of the Palestinian Authority, Abdel Sattar Qassem, into silence is d ...
#108611 Tunnels become a lifeline
by Erin Cunningham in Electronic Intifada, 30 April 2009
RAFAH, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - Pickup trucks speed westward on the Barth highway that flanks the Israeli bo ...
#108521 First two cases of swine flu confirmed in Israel
by Dana Weiler-Polak, Barak Ravid, Ran Reznick, Ronny Linder-Ganz in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
Two Israelis have tested positive for swine flu, the Health Ministry stated over the holiday. Another four people hospitalized with symptoms of the potentially deadly disease have tested negative.
"We still cannot say with certainty whether we hav ...
#108522 Ben-Eliezer: Netanyahu will surprise us with 'serious' Syria talks
by Yossi Verter in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to conduct "serious negotiations" with the Palestinians and the Syrians, Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer (Labor) told Haaretz. The full interview will appear tomorrow in Week's End.
"Netanyahu is going ...
#108523 Border Police come to Ashdod over grenades
by Yanir Yagna in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
Two Border Police detachments will be deployed in Ashdod following several incidents in which grenades were thrown at the homes of senior municipal officials, the commander of the Israel Police's Southern District, Yohanan Danino, said yesterday ...
#108524 'Obama's rabbi': Support is not blanket approval
by Natasha Mozgovaya in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
When Rabbi David Saperstein was appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama to a volunteer White House advisory council of religious and secular leaders and scholars, some called him "Obama's rabbi." Saperstein, however, is more cautious with defin ...
#108525 ANALYSIS / Netanyahu will have to work to restore U.S.-Israel ties
by Aluf Benn in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
During his first 100 days in office, U.S. President Barack Obama set his aims high, but he took careful, moderate steps in practice, avoiding confrontations or adventures that might undermine his support in Congress or among the American public. That ...
#108526 Auschwitz inmate who survived by boxing dies aged 86
by Roy Barak in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
Salamo Arouch, the Jewish boxer who survived Auschwitz through exhibition fights staged by Nazi officers and whose life inspired the 1989 film "Triumph of the Spirit," died on Sunday at the age of 86.
Arouch, born in Saloniki in 1923, began boxing ...
#108527 Israel warns EU against criticism of Netanyahu government
by Barak Ravid in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
A Foreign Ministry official has been warning European countries that unless they curtail criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu's government, Israel will block the European Union from participating in the diplomatic process with the Palestinians.
Th ...
#108528 Infected Israeli feeling well, will stay in hospital
by Ofra Edelman in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
The 26-year-old Israeli in quarantine with swine flu is "feeling healthy as an ox but will stay in the hospital for another couple of days," said his brother yesterday.
Tomer Wajim is thought to have contracted the disease while in Mexico last wee ...
#108529 Netanyahu: Israel will do everything to free Shalit
by Haaretz staff in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that the state is committed to do everything in its power to bring home kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit.
"Every combat soldier knows that we will use all our capabilities to bring him home safe and s ...
#108530 Lieberman: Israel always sought peace
by Staff, Barak Ravid in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman yesterday congratulated Israel on its 61st anniversary, telling foreign diplomats that "Israel has worked hard to achieve peace" since the country was created.
"It's no secret that these are difficult times ...
#108531 Q&A / Israel is not alone; no need for panic
by Yuval Azoulay in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
Dr. Ran Blitzer, special adviser to the Health Ministry on the swine flu epidemic, and head of health policy at the Clalit HMO, answers questions for Haaretz:
What is the meaning of the World Health Organization raising the threat level to 4? ...
#108532 Tel Aviv takes center stage on Israel's 61st Independence Day
by Yuval Goren, Zohar Blumenkrantz, Noah Kosharek in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
Israel's 61st Independence Day was marked by Israeli outings - outside the home, out of town and some even outside the country. Unfortunately, holiday fireworks also led to one injury.
The celebrations began on Tuesday on Mount Herzl in Jerus ...
#108533 Plane crash kills high-tech leader
by Barak Ravid, Guy Grimland, Zohar Blumenkrantz in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
A prominent high-tech entrepreneur and his wife were killed yesterday when their private plane crashed on the Greek island of Zakinthos.
Local authorities cited poor weather and engine malfunctions as possible causes of the accident that killed Dr ...
#108534 Australian philanthropist Richard Pratt dies at 74
by Raphael Ahren in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
Jewish-Australian billionaire Richard Pratt succumbed to prostate cancer early Tuesday morning. He was 74.
"Israel and the Jewish people have lost a great friend and supporter," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement shortly after P ...
#108535 Dutch Yad Vashem Righteous protest 'discrimination' against saviors of ex-Jews
by Cnaan Liphshiz in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
»Dutch recipients of Yad Vashem's highest honor are considering returning the title to protest "discrimination" against saviors of ex-Jews, said leaders of Holland's Jewish community. Yad
Vashem has agreed to review the claims. The p ...
#108536 Gardener, immigrant activist Itz Stein
by Ronnie Hope in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
Itz Stein made Israel a more beautiful place - both through his gardens and through his presence.
The former head of the South African Zionist Federation's Israel office and prominent horticulturalist died in Herzliya on Tuesday at the age of ...
#108537 News Briefs
by Haaretz staff in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
President Shimon Peres will meet with Barack Obama on Monday, becoming the first Israeli official to meet with the new American president, Peres' office said yesterday. Peres will be in Washington to deliver the keynote address at the annual AIP ...
#108538 Netanyahu's inheritance
by Haaretz editorial writer in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inherited a hefty obligation from his predecessor: the task of freeing Gilad Shalit from captivity. True, over the last three years, the mistaken impression arose that this tragic affair was Ehud Olmert's person ...
#108539 Obama in 2012, after he fails to deal with Iran
by Ari Shavit in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
Even now, in November 2012, it is hard not to think back with elation on Barack Obama's first year as president of the United States. In his first 100 days in the White House, the energetic president took a series of daring steps that extricated ...
#108540 The binationalism vogue
by Meron Benvenisti in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
Judging by the increasing number of symposia around the world devoted to promoting a binational state instead of two states for two peoples, a sea change is underway among academics and organizations engaged in progressive thinking.
A generation a ...
#108541 The minister gives a civics lesson
by Haaretz staff in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
Gideon Sa'ar has announced he will be teaching at a different school every week. He is implying that an education minister's job is not just to address teachers' benefits, a major issue in itself. His chosen subject - civics- will let ...
#108542 The majority backs civil marriage
by Yariv Feniger, Guy Ben-Porat in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
The recent election brought the public debate over civil marriage in Israel back into the headlines. But even though some of Yisrael Beiteinu's electoral success stemmed from its support of civil marriage, it seems that once again, there will be ...
#108543 Sharpening the knives
by Michal Palti in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
Chef Ronen Dovrat-Bloch feels haunted. His cell phone number is confidential. He consults his attorney, Yalon Hecht, on every detail. He moved to a new apartment, worried after finding himself at the center of unflattering articles, including paparaz ...
#108544 Bilingual households may improve infants' cognitive abilities
by Tsafi Saar in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
Mom speaks Norwegian and dad, Dutch. Confusing? Not necessarily. A child raised in such an environment might not only grow up to be bilingual, but even before learning to speak, he or she may have a cognitive advantage over infants of the same age wh ...
#108548 Parents in shock as court acquits two mobsters in murder of girl
by Yanir Yagna in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
16-year-old Shaked Shalhov of Ashkelon was gunned down in botched Mob hit six years ago. ...
#108549 Netanyahu mulls tasking Defense Ministry with swine flu prevention
by Dana Weiler-Polak, Barak Ravid, Ran Reznick, Ronny Linder-Ganz in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
Two Israelis have tested positive for swine flu, the Health Ministry stated over the holiday. ...
#108555 Police grill Lieberman for fourth time in graft probe
by Jonathan Lis in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
Questining at fraud squad HQ lasts 8 hours; police: Enough evidence for money laundering, fraud charges. ...
#108560 Two Israelis among Time's 100 most influential people
by Haaretz staff in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and electric car entrepreneur Shai Agassi only Israelis on coveted list. ...
#108696 American Jewish professor probed after comparing Israel to Nazis
by Cnaan Liphshiz in Ha'aretz, 30 April 2009
»A Jewish professor from California who is under review for disseminating material that equates Israelis to Nazis has petitioned other scholars to protest a probe of his actions, an Israel
advocacy group has told Haaretz. The University of Cal ...
#108556 Is Rabbi Lerner going wobbly? 3 critics weigh in
by Philip Weiss, Jeffrey Blankfort (commentator) in MondoWeiss, 30 April 2009
»Three responses to the post on Michael Lerner yesterday based on the New Jersey Jewish News report: 1, from an anonymous Jewish critic, 2, from Jeff Blankfort, 3, from Jack Ross.
1. Lerner is not "going wobbly," Lerner has always been wobbl ...
#107696 Wall: A Monologue
by David Hare in New York Review of Books, 30 April 2009
»Please, please: consider the state of affairs, consider the desperation, consider the depth of the despair. A country has reached a point at which 84 percent of its people are in favor of
building a wall along its borders.
Have you ever kn ...
#108551 Major Canadian retailer to consider boycott motion
by STW contributor in Stop the Wall, 30 April 2009
The global upswing in BDS activity has spread to Canada, where Mountain Equipment Co-op, major outdoor equipment retailer, is set to consider a motion to boycott Israeli products at its next annual general meeting. Although it is unclear who will int ...
#108552 Checkpoints along the Wall to be computerized
by The Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign in Stop the Wall, 30 April 2009
Earlier this week, Occupation authorities announced their intentions to computerize the permit system that controls West Bank Palestinians’ access to ’48 Palestine. This move increases the control exercised over the Palestinian population, adding to ...
#108545 Photographer Ryuichi Hirokawa's best shot
by Melissa Denes in The Guardian, 30 April 2009
#108557 Israel's budding autocracy
by Dimi Reider in The Guardian, 30 April 2009
The first raids took place at about 7am on Sunday. Across the country, activists in a publicly registered, pacifist non-profit organisation were detained. Their computers were confiscated, and they were banned from contacting each other or trying to ...