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https://electronicintifada.net/content/finding-truth-amid-israels-lies/24531 …[Moshe Carmel toured the Galilee at the end of October 1948, after commanding Operation Hiram, in which Israeli forces committed some of the worst atrocities in the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. The crimes were so serious that some leading Zionists described them as Nazi actions.   Carmel's book [ Northern Campaigns] and dozens like it – brigade books, memoirs and military histories – could be found on the shelves of Israeli Jewish homes from 1948 onwards. Revisiting them, 70 years on, reveals an elementary truth: it would have been possible to write the " new history " of 1948 without a single new declassified document, but only if these open sources, as I call them, had been read with non-Zionist lenses… Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://israelpalestinenews.org/jerusalem-the-not-so-eternal-capital-of-the-jewish-people/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=93a2aad5-4d79-429a-8841-9aac9552d158   …[In 1918] the great Ottoman Empire fractured and Palestine – with Jerusalem – came under British rule. With Israel's establishment in 1948, Jerusalem regained its status as capital of the Jews, at least that part under Israeli control. East Jerusalem was annexed in 1981. But in the 2,108 years that passed since the Maccabees made Jerusalem the capital of a politically independent state, until 1948 – while Jerusalem may have been where the Jewish heart lay, at no time was it the formal capital of the Jews.   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://www.thenation.com/article/israeli-american-hammer-lock-palestine/ Israel's occupation is only made possible by unquestioning US support—but a day of reckoning is on the way...   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhO2FpIrm2g section of Democracy Now's 5-16-2018 broadcast   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYqo7o7Xey0   Excerpt from Democracy Now's 5-16-2018 broadcast   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://www.jta.org/2018/05/07/news-opinion/hamas-leaders-gaza-offered-long-term-ceasefire-israel-report-says Hamas leaders in Gaza have sent messages to Israel through various channels in recent months offering to negotiate a long-term cease-fire…According to a report  Monday in the Israeli daily Haaretz, Hamas wants to tie the cease-fire to an easing of the blockade on Gaza, a green light for large-scale infrastructure projects and a prisoner exchange.   Israel has "not responded clearly" to the messages, according to Haaretz… Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/palestinian-prisoners-refuse-medicine-boycott-escalates Palestinian prisoners have decided not to take medicine as part of an escalating protest.   As well as boycotting Israeli military courts, detainees will now refuse health care until their demands are met.   Detainees will also begin a wave of hunger strikes in the coming months…Israel has arrested more than 800,000 Palestinians and issued more than 52,000 administrative detention orders since 1967.   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://israelpalestinenews.org/noura-erakat-articulately-and-compellingly-summarizes-the-palestinian-cause-memorize-this/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=75bc6727-073e-466e-a7d6-ff3b7f09e8c3 Give Noura Erakat nine minutes and she will clarify everything about the Gaza March for Freedom, Hamas, and the trouble with Trump's embassy in Jerusalem.  Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and assistant professor at George Mason University, an activist and writer, as well as a specialist in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, refugee law, humanitarian law, national security law, and social justice. Watch as she discusses the Palestinian reaction to the U.S. embassy opening in Jerusalem and examines the influence of Hamas on Palestinians in Gaza. Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://972mag.com/across-israel-hundreds-protest-gaza-violence/135455/ From Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to Umm al-Fahm, Israelis and Palestinians take to the streets to protest the killing of 60 demonstrators in Gaza a day earlier. … At Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva, over 100 people, mostly Arab students but also including 20-or-so Jews, held a spontaneous demonstration. Several Arab students waving Palestinian flags were arrested.  At the entrance to Tel Aviv University, dozens students held a vigil to commemorate Nakba Day and to protest the killings in Gaza. Demonstrations also took place outside Jerusalem's Old City, as well as in Jaffa, Haifa, Majd al-Krum, and Rahat.   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-slaughters-palestinians-marching-return   Monday marked the largest number of casualties in a single day in Gaza since Israel's massive military assault that claimed more than 2,200 Palestinian lives in the summer of 2014, and was said to be the largest number of protester fatalities in a single day in the territory since the first intifada that began 30 years ago… The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned the "shocking killing of dozens" in Gaza, calling for "those responsible for outrageous human rights violations" to be held to account…   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/world/middleeast/israel-iran-syria-explainer.html?action=click&module=Ribbon&pgtype=Article   ...Mr. Sachs [Natan Sachs, director of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution] said fighting between Iran and Israel in Syria is likely to continue.   "This back and forth — an Iranian attack on Israeli posts on the Golan and a widespread Israeli response against numerous Iranian targets in Syria — was not a one-off flare-up or a case of hot heads prevailing," he said. "This is part of a structural conflict unfolding between Israel and Iran in Syria."…     Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5h8GfxIWVY With the most tech startups and venture capital per capita in the world, Israel has long been hailed as The Startup Nation. WIRED's feature-length documentary looks beyond Tel Aviv's vibrant, liberal tech epicenter to the wider Holy Land region – the Palestinian territories, where a parallel Startup Nation story is emerging in East Jerusalem, Nazareth, Ramallah and other parts of the West Bank, as well as in the Israeli cybersecurity hub of Be'er Sheva. And we will learn how the fertile innovation ecosystem of Silicon Wadi has evolved as a result of its unique political, geographical and cultural situation and explore the future challenges – and solutions – these nations are facing…   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

http://mondoweiss.net/2018/05/officials-constitutional-detained/?mc_cid=11c6f73e4b&mc_eid=c9acac3cf3   Vincent Warren , executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and Katherine Franke, chair of CCR's board and Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Columbia University, were detained Sunday, April 29, for 14 hours and interrogated at Ben Gurion International Airport, then denied entry into Israel and deported, arriving back in New York early Monday morning.  Warren and Franke were questioned about their political association with human rights groups that have been critical of Israel's human rights record."The Israeli government denied us entry, apparently because it feared letting in people who might challenge its policies"…   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://972mag.com/idf-releases-leading-palestinian-nonviolent-activist-ayed-morrar/135051/ Ayed Morrar, who led the Palestinian village of Budrus in a nonviolent struggle against the separation barrier, was released from prison on Wednesday after being arrested by Israeli security forces two days prior.   Ahmed, Morrar's son, who was also arrested remains in prison. His detention was extended for another five days pending investigation into posts he wrote on Facebook. The police released Ayed prior to any hearing…   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/durham-city-ban-police-training-israeli-military-180419135856501.html   …Local council adopts step against exchange with Israeli military practices synonymous with the occupation of Palestine… The resolution read: "The council opposes international exchanges with any country in which Durham officers receive military-style training since such exchanges do not support the kind of policing we want here in the City of Durham."…The Anti-Defamation League, ADL, the pro-Israeli American Jewish civil rights advocacy group has sponsored many of the US law-enforcement agencies leaders' visits to Israel to learn lessons from the Israeli police, military and intelligence experiences.   According to its website, the ADL has trained more than 15,000 law-enforcement professionals on terrorism and extremism in cities like New York City, Washington DC, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Seattle, St Louis, Atlanta and Chicago.   It al