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Israel orders demolition of 8 Palestinian villages, claims need for IDF training land - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
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US House Stealthily Passes Extreme Pro-Israel Legislation
The House bill basically provides Israel with a blank check drawn on the U.S. taxpayer to maintain its “qualitative military edge” over all of its neighbors combined. Go to Google and type in “H.R. 4133.” You will discover that, apart from a handful of blogs and alternative news sites, not a single mainstream medium has reported the story of a congressional bill that might well have major impact on the conduct of United States foreign policy.
Palestinians prepare to lose the solar panels that provide a lifeline | Global development
A Palestinian man looks at a solar panel in the southern West Bank village of Imneizil. Photograph: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images Two large solar panels jut out of the barren landscape near Imneizil in the Hebron hills.
Israel’s Jerusalem Post newspaper recently published an article calling Israel “The New Golden Country” for young people from around the world. It reports that Israel boasts an ever-increasing GDP, a strong currency, and “a lower unemployment rate than the U.S.” The article fails to mention the well over $3 billion a year that American taxpayers have given Israel for years, nor the fact that some of this money has been used to develop industries that compete with U.S. companies, costing thousands of American jobs and adding to the American unemployment rate. The story also omits the fact that Israel has periodically stolen U.S. technology , hurting the U.S. economy still more, and fails to note that support for Israel has cost Americans in the range of $3-$6 trillion and that these costs continue to escalate. The article reports that many young Jewish American singles “are realizing that their future is in Israel.
American Taxpayers Subsidize Israel’s Prosperity by Alison Weir
Israeli occupation have confiscated about a third of the territory of East Jerusalem in order to expand settlement construction. A report issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has confirmed that since its occupation in 1967, authorities of the Israeli occupation have confiscated about a third of the territory of East Jerusalem in order to expand settlement construction. Ray Dolphin, the author of a report entitled "East Jerusalem: the basic human concerns", said that Israeli policies and measures give priority to Israeli settlers in Jerusalem at the expense of the city's indigenous inhabitants, pointing out that the Israeli occupation has confiscated thirty-five per cent of the Palestinian territories in eastern Jerusalem, for the benefit of projects aimed to expand Jewish settlements and to build other new settlements.
UN report: Israel confiscated 35% of Jerusalem territories for settlements
Israeli troops have shot dead a sleeping Palestinian man during a dawn raid in the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. Family members found Omar al-Qawasmeh, 66, in a pool of blood in the bedroom after soldiers broke into several homes in the city's al-Sheikh neighbourhood on Friday. The raid came less than 24 hours after six Hamas fighters who had been on hunger strike in Palestinian jails were released on Thursday. Five of them were from Hebron, and one of them, Wael Bitar, arrested by the Israelis, lived one storey below the victim, residents said.
Palestinian killed in Israeli raid - Middle East
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Auschwitz survivor: ‘Israel acts like Nazis’ - Herald Scotland | News | Politics
