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http://whatreallyhappened.com/taxonomy/term/90/0 en http://bit.ly/7AsDwq <p>Israelis talk often and loudly about their desires for peace. But its never been clear precisely what peace concept it is they desire. In particular, Israeli notions of peace have never gone so far as to grant the Palestinians the same national rights that Israelis claim for themselves. Well, according to a new poll by Israeli National News (disclaimer: its a right-wing rag, sample size “more than 6,400?), a majority of Israelis are clear about what kind of “peace” they desire.</p> <p>53.2% of surveyed Israelis say the “solution” to the conflict was the ethnic cleansing...</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/53-israelis-think-ethnic-cleansing-solution-conflict-0" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/53-israelis-think-ethnic-cleansing-solution-conflict-0#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE TORTURE/WAR CRIMES Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:58:05 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46817 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=537 <p><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_M1kbCjTvWQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_M1kbCjTvWQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></object></p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/international-law-and-israeli-propaganda" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/international-law-and-israeli-propaganda#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE TORTURE/WAR CRIMES Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:45:47 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46795 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=532 <p>"We urge the Israeli side to take concrete measures to restore Palestine-Israel mutual trust and create favorable conditions for the early resumption of talks between them," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said Thursday.</p> <p>The remarks by China's Foreign Ministry were also echoed by the Swiss government which called on Israel to stop construction of Jewish settlements in occupied Palestinian territories.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/world-condemns-israeli-settlements" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/world-condemns-israeli-settlements#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE TORTURE/WAR CRIMES Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:44:49 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46788 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://uruknet.com/index.php?p=m60257&hd=&size=1&l=e <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/new-poll-53-israelis-think-ethnic-cleansing-solution-conflict" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/new-poll-53-israelis-think-ethnic-cleansing-solution-conflict#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:32:25 +0000 Mike Rivero 46783 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=525 <p>The Quds information center has disclosed Thursday that the Israeli occupation authorities have prepared the blueprints for seven settlement projects in the occupied city of Jerusalem as part of its efforts to judaize the Palestinian city.</p> <p>In a statement it issued and published by the Quds Press, the center pointed out that the new suburb that the IOA announced it would construct in Israeli settlement of Gilo was indeed a prelude for seven bigger settlement projects the IAO wants to build in the occupied Palestinian city.</p> <p>The center also quoted sources inside the IOA as saying that the rightist government of premier Binyamin Netanyahu would carryout the projects after the diplomatic “misunderstanding” with the US administration regarding those settlements is absorbed.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/israel-build-seven-illegal-settlement-suburbs-occupied-jerusalem" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/israel-build-seven-illegal-settlement-suburbs-occupied-jerusalem#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE TORTURE/WAR CRIMES Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:29:53 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46782 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=520 <p>A 16-year-old Israeli who stabbed Palestinian Jamil Abdullah, 42, in occupied Jerusalem on Thursday may have also carried out a series of attacks against Arabs and Palestinians, the Israeli police said Friday during a remand hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court.</p> <p>The Jerusalem Police believe that Thursday's stabbing incident was “nationalistically motivated.” The police told the court that the culprit had attacked Arabs and Palestinians near the Tomb of Simeon the Just in east Jerusalem, near the settlement of Carmel and near the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar.</p> <p>Abdullah, 42, the father of five from the village of Shoafat in the Jerusalem area, was evacuated to the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital with abdomen wounds.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/israeli-who-stabbed-palestinian-may-have-carried-out-series-such-attacks" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/israeli-who-stabbed-palestinian-may-have-carried-out-series-such-attacks#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE TORTURE/WAR CRIMES Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:01:11 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46781 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://USMediaAndIsrael.com <p>Studies show that many Americans incorrectly believe the Palestinians are the illegal settlers on their own land. See more, including criticism of self-censorship in mainstream media, in a new article at USMediaAndIsrael.com: <a href="http://usmediaandisrael.com/?p=353" title="http://usmediaandisrael.com/?p=353">http://usmediaandisrael.com/?p=353</a></p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/americans-believe-palestinians-are-illegal-settlers-west-bank-confusion-ok-us-media" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/americans-believe-palestinians-are-illegal-settlers-west-bank-confusion-ok-us-media#comments CORPORATE MEDIA COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA CURRENT EVENTS ISRAEL PALESTINE POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:51:20 +0000 DavidMorris 46711 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=506 <p>Yaakov (Jack) Teitel (pictured in Israeli custody) is not the first and probably not the last Israeli terrorist to target Palestinians or Israeli supporters of peace.</p> <p>Furthermore, many of these Jewish terrorists came from the ranks of the West Bank settlers.</p> <p>Read on for a partial list of Israeli groups and individuals who took violent action to sabotage peace.</p> <p>Following the arrest and indictment of Yaakov (Jack) Teitel who reportedly admitted to a series of murderous terrorist attacks against Israelis and Palestinians over the past twelve years, the settlers and their supporters cried foul. Teitel is an exception, they said, a single case, a “lone wolf,” a lunatic.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/short-history-israeli-right-wing-terrorism" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/short-history-israeli-right-wing-terrorism#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE TORTURE/WAR CRIMES Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:33:16 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46704 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=503 <p><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vUdhNq2Na1c&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vUdhNq2Na1c&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></object></p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/shot-my-hands-air" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/shot-my-hands-air#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE TORTURE/WAR CRIMES Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:28:24 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46693 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=500 <p>An Israeli prison,The Nakab, located between Egypt and Israel has booked one cat in solitary confinement as punishment for its services and assistance to prisoners who are serving sentences in solitary confinement.</p> <p>According to the Israeli officers,the cat was aiding prisoners by moving light objects (i.e. letters,bread etc) between the cells of prisoners.<br /> It turns out that the cat had been providing its services to prisoners for several months until it was exposed recently and so the prison administration decided to place the cat in solitary confinement - the same way they do to the prisoners.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/israelis-imprison-cat-aiding-palestinian-prisoners" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/israelis-imprison-cat-aiding-palestinian-prisoners#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE TORTURE/WAR CRIMES Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:43:39 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46688 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1119/p06s07-wome.html <p>Israel settlements use more than four times as much water as Palestinians and the absence of a peace agreement is stalling negotiations to improve the situation.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/palestinians-accuse-israel-settlements-diverting-water" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/palestinians-accuse-israel-settlements-diverting-water#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:12:12 +0000 Mike Rivero 46675 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=487 <p>Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas this week countered Israeli and American claims that a Middle East peace deal could be reached before the end of his term.</p> <p>In an interview with Egyptian television on Wednesday, Abbas denied that either side has been pleading with him persistently to remain in office against his declared plan not to run for presidency in the Palestinian Authority’s next election.</p> <p>“If [Israeli and U.S.] intentions are sincere, then I am still here and have been here for years. They could have reached a deal with me already,” said Abbas. “If Israel is prepared to advance peace on the basis of prior agreements and in accordance with the outline laid out in the road map, then it can do so with any Palestinian leader that succeeds me.”</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/abbas-%E2%80%9Cmideast-deal-won%E2%80%99t-happen-me%E2%80%9D" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/abbas-%E2%80%9Cmideast-deal-won%E2%80%99t-happen-me%E2%80%9D#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:05:15 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46671 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=481 <p>Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu is a manifestly fascist-minded demagogue who thinks that everything Jewish must override everything non-Jewish, regardless of all considerations.</p> <p>He is also a first-class liar who believes that lying to the world, including Jews, is the first line of defense against growing opposition to genocidal Israeli criminality.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/netanyahuthe-obscene-liar" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/netanyahuthe-obscene-liar#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE TORTURE/WAR CRIMES Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:45:47 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46663 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=477 <p>Israeli warplanes pounded the tunnels area in Rafah, in southern Gaza Strip, and a position for the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, at dawn Thursday wounding three citizens, local sources reported. </p> <p>They told the PIC reporter that Israeli F-16s fired two missiles at the tunnels area on the Palestinian-Egyptian borders and injured three civilians.</p> <p>The sources noted that few minutes later the warplanes blasted a position for the Qassam Brigades west of Khan Younis, also in southern Gaza</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/israel-wounds-3-palestiniansrounds-dozens-gaza" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/israel-wounds-3-palestiniansrounds-dozens-gaza#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE TORTURE/WAR CRIMES Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:35:06 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46662 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/11/west-is-east-when-israel-decides.html <p>In 2004, when the Israeli government was re-surveying Jerusalem's municipal boundary, it ruled that the hotel was not actually in the West Bank but inside the city. Deif stresses that the hotel had always paid property taxes to the West Bank town of Bethlehem, never to Jerusalem.</p> <p>But, bending the rationale of their own bureaucracy, the Israeli municipal authorities ruled that since Walid Ayyad had a West Bank identity card, he was not recognised as a resident of Jerusalem. Thus, classified an "absentee owner", his property "inside Jerusalem" was therefore deemed liable for expropriation.</p> <p>Walid Ayyad now lives in London. The family received no compensation for the takeover.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/west-east-when-israel-decides" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/west-east-when-israel-decides#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:24:55 +0000 Mike Rivero 46615 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://bit.ly/14AuaB <p>“The strikes are in response to continued recent rocket firing into Israel from the Gaza Strip. In the past month some 15 rockets have been fired into Israel,” the IDF Spokesman’s Office said.</p> <p>Late last week, the IDF as well Palestinian medical workers reported that Israeli soldiers had shot and killed a Palestinian and wounded at least one other in a confrontation near a Gaza Strip border crossing.</p> <p>An IDF spokeswoman said the troops opened fire at Palestinians suspected of placing explosives near a security fence. One died of injuries, a second was taken to hospital and three others were seized.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/israel-strikes-khan-younis-rafah" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/israel-strikes-khan-younis-rafah#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE TORTURE/WAR CRIMES Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:56:53 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46587 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=446 <p>Israel is “the most threatened country in the world,” and the rocket attacks its civilian population has suffered are “attacks not experienced by any other state since Britain in World War II,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday.</p> <p>Netanyahu was giving the closing remarks at the Israel Annual Conference on Aviation and Astronautics. Much of the discussion at the conference centered on missile defense.</p> <p>“We are faced with enemies who do not conceal their intentions, and who arm themselves accordingly,” the Israeli prime minister said. “They first attack us physically, and then attack our right to self-defense.”</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/netanyahu-whines-israel-world%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98most-threatened-country%E2%80%99" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/netanyahu-whines-israel-world%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98most-threatened-country%E2%80%99#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE TORTURE/WAR CRIMES Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:03:54 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46580 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=442 <p>The Palestinians will not unilaterally declare an independent state, but rather seek a UN Security Council resolution endorsing a two-state solution along the pre-1967 lines, Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.</p> <p>Israeli officials said Erekat was backtracking on earlier statements calling for a unilateral declaration of independence, even as he said that Israel was "twisting his words."</p> <p>The Palestinians want the Security Council to set the borders of their future state and those of Israel along the pre-1967 lines, Erekat said. "What we are seeking is to preserve the two-state solution," he said. "One state is not an option."</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/erekat-denies-pa-plans-declare-state-unilaterally" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/erekat-denies-pa-plans-declare-state-unilaterally#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE TORTURE/WAR CRIMES Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:47:02 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46565 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24001.htm <p>The United Nations, the United States and the European Union have all called on Israel to stop the illegal eviction of Palestinians and the demolition of their homes.</p> <p>Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, urged Israel to end its "provocative actions" in East Jerusalem, while calling for it to freeze all settlement activity in the occupied West Bank.</p> <p>Despite that, the sight of Palestinians in East Jerusalem being forced out of their homes has become an all too familiar scene.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/eviction-palestinian-families-continue" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/eviction-palestinian-families-continue#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:32:43 +0000 Mike Rivero 46564 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=420 <p>The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Tuesday published a report listing Palestinian communities that are especially vulnerable to the settler strategy known as the "price tag."</p> <p>The document includes 83 villages, hamlets and neighborhoods that appear to be particularly vulnerable to retaliatory attacks by settlers in response to Israeli occupation army operations to dismantle illegal structures built by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. In the past, such attacks have included rock-throwing and setting fire to Palestinian property.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/un-lists-vulnerable-palestinian-villages" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/un-lists-vulnerable-palestinian-villages#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE TORTURE/WAR CRIMES Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:57:53 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46544 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=415 <p>Although Israel has been insisting for quite a while that there is no crisis of relations with the United States, Israeli officials were surprised Tuesday by the harsh American, British, regional and International responses to the approval of building 900 new housing units in the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo.</p> <p>A source in Benjamin Netanyahu's office clarified Tuesday evening that such approvals "are not handled by the Israeli prime minister."</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/israel-seeking-curb-crisis-obama-over-settlements" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/israel-seeking-curb-crisis-obama-over-settlements#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE TORTURE/WAR CRIMES Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:48:49 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46542 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/will-palestine-be-declared-a-state/ <p>Frustrated by a chronically deadlocked peace process, under its rubric Israel continues to expand Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Al-Quds, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is now seriously considering unilaterally declaring statehood on territories occupied by Israel during the 1967 war.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/will-palestine-be-declared-state" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/will-palestine-be-declared-state#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:16:49 +0000 Mike Rivero 46508 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=399 <p><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AQNX07NyoDc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AQNX07NyoDc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></object></p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/addicted-occupation" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/addicted-occupation#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE TORTURE/WAR CRIMES Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:01:42 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46459 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://original.antiwar.com/frykberg/2009/11/16/gazans-brace-for-cold-bleak/ <p>Tens of thousands of Gazans living in tents and damaged homes face a wet, cold, and miserable winter as Israel’s blockade of the coastal territory continues to prevent the importation of building and reconstruction material.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/gazans-brace-cold-bleak-and-miserable-winter" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/gazans-brace-cold-bleak-and-miserable-winter#comments PALESTINE Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:09:51 +0000 Mike Rivero 46436 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/11/20091142729252324.html <object width="500" height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EISikrLcSw8&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed 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proposed construction at the settlement of Gilo.</p> <p>But a government planning commission approved the addition of 900 housing units at Gilo, where 40,000 Israelis already live.</p> <p>Israel rejects the international description of Gilo as a settlement and says it is a neighbourhood of Jerusalem, the city it claims as its capital.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/israel-approves-new-homes-near-jerusalem-defies-us" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/israel-approves-new-homes-near-jerusalem-defies-us#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:51:57 +0000 malterwitty 46428 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=375 <p>An influential Jewish community leader and Democratic State Assemblyman from New York is currently heading a mission of about 50 Americans through the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem to promote home purchases in the area and to protest U.S. President Barack Obama's Middle East policy.</p> <p>"Our goal is to send a clear message to Washington and President Obama that Jews will continue to live in Judea and Samaria and the ultimate commitment American Jews can make is to actually come and buy property in these areas as this will ensure these communities" security and growth," said Dov Hikind, 59, who has been representing Brooklyn's 48th district since 1983.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-politician-wants-american-jews-buy-west-bank-homes" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-politician-wants-american-jews-buy-west-bank-homes#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE TORTURE/WAR CRIMES Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:08:35 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46419 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=372 <p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declined a US request to freeze a project to build dozens of housing units in an east Jerusalem settlement, Israeli army radio reported on Tuesday.</p> <p>US Middle East envoy George Mitchell had recently asked the hawkish premier to halt the project in Gilo, saying it risks raising tensions with Palestinians amid floundering efforts by Washington to restart peace negotiations, it said.</p> <p>But Netanyahu refused, saying that the project did not require government approval and that Gilo was "an integral part of Jerusalem," it said.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/israel-snubs-us-request-halt-settlement" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/israel-snubs-us-request-halt-settlement#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE TORTURE/WAR CRIMES Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:03:40 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46416 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=369 <p>The Haaretz repost says:<br /> “Right-wing spokesmen, including some elected officials, rushed to place Yaakov “Jack” Teitel in the fringe group alongside Yigal Amir, Eden Natan Zada, Eliran Golan, Asher Weisgan, Danny Tikman and a few other “political/ideological” murderers. True, they acknowledge, there are among us several lunatic rabbis who agitate to violence. Really, just a handful; even a toddler could count them. The more stringent will note that unlike the Hamas government, our government does not pay the salaries of rabbis who advocate the killing of babies.”</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/%E2%80%9Cisraeli-ministries-funding-rabbi-who-endorses-killing-babies%E2%80%9D" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/%E2%80%9Cisraeli-ministries-funding-rabbi-who-endorses-killing-babies%E2%80%9D#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE TORTURE/WAR CRIMES Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:57:44 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46415 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1128403.html <p>Protesters say the Israel Defense Forces used live ammunition from Ruger rifles last Friday to disperse a demonstration near the separation fence at the West Bank town of Na'alin. In 2001, the military advocate general ordered a halt to the use of such rifles for crowd control.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/protesters-idf-used-22-caliber-ammo-west-bank-fence" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/protesters-idf-used-22-caliber-ammo-west-bank-fence#comments ISRAEL PALESTINE Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:25:32 +0000 Mike Rivero 46359 at http://whatreallyhappened.com