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• Israel: Tension Grows as Settlers Vow to Continue Protests

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 570
  The leaders of Yesha Council, an umbrella organization of municipal councils of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, expressed their determinationl to oppose the Israeli Government’s 10-month moratorium on construction. Yesha Council chair Dani Dayan said: We will violate the decision to freeze [construction] ...
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• PLAIN DEALER: CLEVELAND NEEDS $291 MILLION TO SHORE UP HILL SLIDING TOWARD THE CUYAHOGA – EDITORIAL

  
  ClevelandDesignCity — Authority: 144
  What will it take? The closure of a vital shipping lane? The destruction of an aged pipe that carries as much as 11.6 million gallons of sewage and storm water runoff a day? What will it take to goad public officials to deal with the risks to public health, safety and commerce posed by a hillside sliding toward big ...
  22 hours ago

• No freeze of Jewish Construction in Judea & Samaria

  
  Shimshon 9 — Authority: 121
  Israelis want PM Netanyahu to reject President Obamas demands.
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• Time for Israel to say screw world opinion and do what is right for her people.

  
  Boudica BPI Weblog — Authority: 132
  Islamic Jihad in Gaza – Video Thanks to Bare Naked Islam for posting this clip. Time for Israel to take back Gaza and expel these vermin. Time to stop appeasing world opinion. Europe is itself a mess dealing with Islamist immigrants. Wake up world. Posted in appeasement, Arabs, Barack Obama, cults, Gaza, ...
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• Pleasing colonists who used to terrorise Gaza

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 146
  Holding those to account in Israel? Not if you’re a radical settler : Even as concern grows about civil resistance to new government construction limits in the West Bank, a Knesset committee has approved a bill to scrub clean the records of right-wingers arrested during violent protests against Israel’s ...
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• Even J Street realises the window is closing

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 146
  The position of J Street has often been awfully weak in the face of Israeli extremism. The group’s latest statement is a little tougher and necessarily so: J Street is deeply concerned about increasing tension in Jerusalem and provocative actions being taken by the Israeli government and settler groups there ...
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• Mob justice in the West Bank

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 146
  A shocking video circulating around the Arab world. Shots of an Israeli settler driving over a Palestinian: When a Palestinian man from Hebron entered an Israeli settlement gas station with a knife, the Israeli settlers on the scene took things into their own hands. After beating the man and shooting him multiple ...
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• Bil’in residents demonstrate in support of recent Swedish initiative calling for a Palestinian state

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 522
  Bil’in Popular Committee 4 December 2009 Residents of Bil’in, alongside international and Israeli solidarity activists, demonstrated against the Wall after the Friday prayer. Many suffered from tear-gas inhalation, as the Israeli armed forces fired upon protestors as they approached the illegal Wall. The ...
  2 days ago

• We will build and you can’t stop us, says Zionist on Israel’s tit

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 146
  Pro-settler group Women in Green and their leader Nadia Matar issue a clarion call to resist the Israeli state on its pathetic efforts to “halt” settlement growth. The organisation of the far-right is impressive and Israel has for decades bowed down to these hardliners. Arabs be damned. Here’s Matar: Dear ...
  2 days ago

• The good life on the West Bank

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 605
  In the Wall Street Journal , Tom Gross provides an eye-opening antidote to the usual boilerplate fantasies about Palestinian deprivation: Wandering around downtown Nablus the shops and restaurants I saw were full. There were plenty of expensive cars on the streets. Indeed I counted considerably more BMWs ...
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• Israel: Netanyahu and Barak Steady the Line on Settlements

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 570
  Amidst growing protests by West Bank settlers over the 10-month “freeze” on expansion by the Netanyahu Government, both Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have met settlers. Both Barak and Netanyahu tried to calm the atmosphere and urged settler leaders to cooperate with officials. ...
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• Israeli soldiers vandalize Palestinian cars [Video]

  
  Sabbah — Authority: 119
  BTselem documented 8 cars used to transport Palestinian workers that were vandalized, allegedly by Israeli soldiers. Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hi74mWWs0Q Israeli soldiers vandalize Palestinian cars [Video] is a post from: Sabbah Report . Get Daily Newsletter , follow on Twitter and ...
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• IN DEFENSE OF TERRORISM?

  
  Desertpeace — Authority: 585
  DesertPeace, nor any of its Associates are not defenders of terrorism or terrorists….. on either side. I was questioned by many readers this week about a certain post that appeared on this Blog. Some had the impression that the post was in support of what appeared to be a terrorist attack on the part of a ...
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• World Briefing | Middle East: Israel: Settlers Turn Down Premier

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  West Bank settler leaders rejected a personal plea from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to respect a construction freeze in their communities.
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• The state of the peace process in 2009

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 146
  Overland is one of Australia’s finest literary journals. Punchy, provocative, topical, relevant and interesting, the magazine re-launched its website this week and is currently running a Subscriberthon . Do it for yourself and the country. Get into it! I was asked to write an original piece for the ...
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• Hamas and Israel move along their merry way of further crimes

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 146
  Sometimes a necessary comparison must be done. First, Hamas in Gaza tightens its rule and undoubtedly increases the chances of human rights abuses: Hamas rulers in the Gaza Strip plan to introduce the death penalty for gangs getting rich off smuggled narcotics. Security officials of the Hamas movement and ...
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• Bob Simmons : A Medical Mission to Palestine (Documentary Video)

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 551
  A Medical Mission to Palestine - Part 1 from Telebob on Vimeo.Good works done by good people:A Medical Mission to PalestineBy Bob Simmons / The Rag Blog / December 3, 2009See Parts 2-4 of A Medical Mission to Palestine, Below.The hardest part of making this documentary was trying not to come right out and say it. The ...
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• PLAIN DEALER: CLEVELAND SEEKS $219 MILLION TO FIX SLIDING CUYAHOGA RIVER BANK

  
  ClevelandDesignCity — Authority: 144
  The city of Cleveland is seeking $219 million to permanently fix a crumbling slope above the Cuyahoga River that threatens the waterway’s vital shipping traffic, a major sewer line, two roads and several buildings along West 25th Street. The slow-motion landslide in the  Irishtown Bend area has been under way for ...
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• Shock follows footage of settler running over Palestinian

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 522
  Ma’an News 3 December 2009 An amateur video shocked Palestinians on Tuesday, catching what appeared to be an Israeli settler repeatedly running over a wounded Palestinian at a gas station in Hebron last week. The Palestinian, an unidentified man shot several times following an alleged knife attack at the ...
  3 days ago

• Building peace without Obama’s interference

  
  Israpundit — Authority: 129
  A promising, independent Palestine is quietly being developed, with Israeli assistance. By Tom Gross, The Wall Street Journal It is difficult to turn on a TV or radio or pick up a newspaper these days, without finding some pundit or other deploring the dismal prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace or the dreadful ...
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