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Joe Sacco's 'Palestine' breathtaking honest with haunting detail
In any medium, the classics can occasionally take a long time to get to. Sometimes, its simple things like pricing and availability that lead to a title being put off, but occasionally its got to do with the expectation that the work in question will be a rough read, a rewarding, but emotionally challenging venture.
March 30, 2012
Tags: a-general-base, a-graphic-novel, a-little-bit, a-rough-read, a-title-being, behind-the-name, dispossessed, expectation, experiences, into-the-darker, work Posted in: Palestine 
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GMJ Commemorating Land Day in Palestine Begins
Palestine Human Rights Campaign www.palestine.org.nz Media Release March 30th 2012 Global March to Jerusalem commemorating Land Day in Palestine begins in Aotearoa-New Zealand March 30 is Land Day in Palestine and commemorates the events of 1976, when Israel seized massive quantities of Palestinian land and then killed and injured dozens of those who protested against the theft. This year on Land Day, March 30, people from around Palestine and the world will gather to form a Global March to Jerusalem to protest the theft in progress today: the isolation and ethnic cleansing taking place throughout occupied Palestine through illegal settlement activity.
March 29, 2012
Tags: Christian, events, global, global-march, Israel, israeli, Jerusalem, jordan, lebanon-, muslim, north, Syria Posted in: Palestine Comments Closed
Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Prisoner Ends Hunger Strike in Return for Expulsion
RAMALLAH, March 29, 2012 (WAFA) Hana Shalabi, the Palestinian prisoner held in Israeli jails who has been on hunger strike for 43 straight days, agreed Thursday to end her strike in return for expulsion to the Gaza Strip for three years, according to Minister of Prisoners Issa Qaraqi. He said Shalabi reached this decision on her own, but explained that she must have come under heavy pressure to accept this deal from the Israelis. Shalabi, 30, went on hunger strike immediately after her arrest on February 16 when she was placed under administrative detention for six months to protest her arrest
March 29, 2012
Tags: detention-for, heavy-pressure, israelis, jenin-, prisoners-issa, prisoners-swap, sentence, shalabi, she-continued, straight-days Posted in: Palestine Comments Closed
Germany announces aid to Palestine
Germany will give Palestine nearly $93 million this year, and about $53 million of it will go toward development, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said.
March 29, 2012
Tags: a-future-state-, european, european-union, joint-technical, minister, minister-guido, salam-fayyad, state-as-part Posted in: Palestine Comments Closed
Pro-Palestine march: 37 Indian activists detained
A group of 37 Indians, including 10 women, who were to participate in a pro-Palestine global march to Jerusalem, have been detained by Lebanese authorities at Beirut port. Indian activists and journalists participating in the Global March to Jerusalem (GMJ), along with 3 Filipinos and one Iraqi, have been asked not to leave the 246-seater boat which docked at Beirut yesterday at 9 am (IST). The GMJ’s local contacts had been assured that the delegation would be issued visas on arrival.
March 29, 2012
Tags: a-big-boat, detained-or-for, detainees, global, indian, Jerusalem, leave-the-boat, lebanese Posted in: Palestine Comments Closed
Issawiya Land Day – Video
29-03-2012 07:23 Residents of Issawiya and A-Tur — two East Jerusalem neighborhoods — planted olive trees on Thursday, March 29th, to mark the annual Land Day in Palestine.
March 29, 2012
Tags: annual, issawiya, national-park-, natural, only, palestinian, purposes, residents, will-, will-take Posted in: Palestine Comments Closed
Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Jewish Settlers Takeover Building in Hebron
HEBRON, March 29, 2012 (WAFA) – A group of Jewish settlers Thursday broke into an abandoned building located less than a kilometer away from the Ibrahimi mosque (Cave of the Patriarchs) in the southern West Bank city of Hebron and took it over claiming they have documents proving ownership of the building, according to local residents.
March 29, 2012
Tags: a-kilometer-away, building, from-the, ibrahimi, Jewish, kilometer-away, local-residents, march, over-claiming, patriarchs, the-building, the-southern, took-it-over, wafa Posted in: Palestine Comments Closed
Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Prison Officers Conclude Training Courses in Quelling Prison Disorder
JERICHO, March 28, 2012 (WAFA) – Twenty Palestinian prison officers from the Corrections and Rehabilitations Centers Department (CRCD) concluded on Wednesday multi-skills training courses in combating threatening situations in the West Bank city of Jericho, an EUPOL COPPS press release said.
March 28, 2012
Tags: combating-threatening, concluded-on-wednesday, crcd, jericho, march, press-release, prison-officers, twenty, twenty-palestinian, wafa Posted in: Palestine Comments Closed
Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Dutch-Funded Program to Support Civil Police
RAMALLAH, March 28, 2012 – A 5 million euro Dutch-funded program to support the Palestinian civil police was launched in Ramallah on Wednesday, according to a statement issued by EUPOL COPPS, one of the participants in the project.
March 28, 2012
Tags: dutch-funded, palestinian, project, ramallah, statement-issued, support-the, the-participants, the-project- Posted in: Palestine Comments Closed
Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Palestinians and Israelis Stand far apart on Peace, says Joint Poll
Palestinians and Israelis Stand far apart on Peace, says Joint Poll Date : 28/3/2012Time : 14:10 RAMALLAH, March 28, 2012 (WAFA) A joint Palestinian-Israeli poll published Wednesday showed the two sides standing very far apart on how to make peace.
March 28, 2012
Tags: apart-on-peace, far-apart, israelis, israelis-stand, joint, joint-poll, march, palestinians, poll-published, wednesday Posted in: Palestine Comments Closed
Palestine’s Abbas to repeat UN bid at Arab League summit
March 28, 2012 – 15:40 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will make his case for a repeat attempt to win full UN membership for Palestine at the Arab League summit in Baghdad, said Yasser Abed Rabbo, a top Abbas aide, RIA Novosti reported. Abbas submitted Palestine’s official application for recognition as an independent state in the UN in September 2011. That bid foundered after the U.S.
March 28, 2012
Tags: difficult, for-recognition, halt-settlement, Israel, league-nabil, mahmoud-abbas-, palestinian, peace, security, Syria, territory, yasser-abed Posted in: Palestine Comments Closed
Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Telecom Ministry Accuses Israel of Hindering IT Sector
RAMALLAH, March 28, 2012 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Authority (PA) accused Israel of hindering growth of the Palestinian telecommunication sector in clear violation of signed agreements, said a report published earlier this week by the Ministry of Telecommunications.
March 28, 2012
Tags: a-report-published, clear-violation, hindering-growth, Israel, march, ministry, palestinian, report-published, signed-agreements, telecommunications, wafa, week Posted in: Palestine Comments Closed
Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Palestinian Court Extends Arrest of Journalist
RAMALLAH, March 28, 2012 (WAFA) – A Palestinian court Wednesday extended the arrest of journalist Yousef al-Shayeb for 15 days pending investigation of charges of slander and defamation against the Palestinian diplomatic mission in France and the foreign minister.
March 28, 2012
Tags: against-the-palestinian, and-the, arrest, days-pending, defamation-against, diplomatic-mission, extended-the-arrest, foreign, foreign-minister, france, slander-and, wednesday, yousef Posted in: Palestine Comments Closed
Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Tax Collectors Raid Silwan Shops, Clash with Residents
JERUSALEM, March 28, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli tax collectors backed by a large police force raided shops in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan Wednesday and seized goods from several stores on the pretext the owners did not pay their taxes, according to a local activist.
March 28, 2012
Tags: a-local-activist, did-not, goods-from, israeli, large-police, local-activist, march, owners, pay-their, pretext, several-stores, the-owners Posted in: Palestine Comments Closed
Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Demolition Orders Issued for Silwan Residents
JERUSALEM, March 27, 2012 (WAFA) – The West Jerusalem Israeli municipality handed six Palestinian families living in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan home demolition notices under the pretext of building without a permit, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center said Tuesday in a statement.
March 27, 2012
Tags: building-without, center, east, handed-six, hilweh-information, Jerusalem, jerusalem-israeli, march, notices-under, palestinian, pretext, silwan, tuesday, wadi, wafa Posted in: Palestine Comments Closed
Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Attorney Says Health of Striking Prisoner Deteriorated
RAMALLAH, March 27, 2012 (WAFA) – Attorney Jawad Boulus, who represents striking prisoner in Israeli jails, Hana Shalabi, said Tuesday that Shalabi’s health has deteriorated and that she was bleeding from the nose and mouth.
March 27, 2012
Tags: and-mouth-, attorney, attorney-jawad, bleeding-from, boulus, from-the-nose, health-has, israeli, march, nose, shalabi, striking-prisoner, the-nose-, tuesday, wafa Posted in: Palestine Comments Closed
Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Government Announces $3.18 Billion Budget for 2012
RAMALLAH, March 27, 2012 (WAFA) – Palestinian government spokesman Ghassan Khatib Tuesday announced that the budget for the year 2012 is $3.18 billion.
March 27, 2012
Tags: budget, for-the, march, the-budget, tuesday, wafa Posted in: Palestine Comments Closed
Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Jerusalem Permits for West Bank Ambulance Drivers Cancelled
JERUSALEM, March 27, 2012 (WAFA) – The Israeli civil administration, a department in the Israeli West Bank military government, cancelled all permits issued to ambulance drivers from the West Bank who work in Jerusalem, Mohammed Gharableh, head of ambulance services union in occupied East Jerusalem, said on Tuesday.
March 27, 2012
Tags: ambulance-drivers, ambulance-services, from-the-west, israeli, israeli-west, Jerusalem, march, military-government, mohammed, permits-issued, said-on-tuesday, tuesday, wafa, west Posted in: Palestine Comments Closed
Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Elderly Social Figure Arrested in Hebron
HEBRON, March 27, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Tuesday arrested an elderly Palestinian social figure from the southern West Bank city of Hebron, according to the Palestinian Prisoner's Club (PPC).
March 27, 2012
Tags: elderly-palestinian, from-the, from-the-southern, hebron, israeli, palestinian, ppc, social-figure, southern, tuesday, wafa Posted in: Palestine Comments Closed
Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Summer Time to Start Mid-Night Thursday
Summer Time to Start Mid-Night Thursday Date : 26/3/2012Time : 19:25 RAMALLAH, March 26, 2012 (WAFA) Summer saving time will start in the Palestinian Territory at midnight Thursday, a cabinet statement said Monday. Moving the clock ahead by 60 minutes was decided during the weekly cabinet meeting
March 26, 2012
Tags: clock, decided-during, during-the-weekly, march, night-thursday, start, start-mid-, thursday, wafa Posted in: Palestine Comments Closed
Palestine envoy calls for peace
Published : Tuesday, March 27, 2012 00:00 Article Views : 74 Written by : BERNICE CAMILLE V. BAUZON REPORTER The Palestinian ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) on Monday highlighted the importance of a strong Philippines, adding that the relationship between Manila and the conflict-torn country has been very good. Ambassador Abdelaziz Aboughosh, currently in the country to meet with government officials and discuss Philippines-Palestine bilateral relations, also called for peace
March 26, 2012
Tags: aboughosh, conflict, country, educational, manila-times, philippines, the-importance, united Posted in: Palestine Comments Closed
Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Exports Decrease, Imports Increase in January
RAMALLAH, March 26, 2012 (WAFA) – Palestinian exports decreased in January by 7.8% compared to December, while imports to the Palestinian Territory increased by 6.3% in the same period, a report by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) said Monday.
March 26, 2012
Tags: bureau, central-bureau, december, exports-decreased, january-, march, monday, palestinian, pcbs, same, statistics, the-same, wafa, while-imports Posted in: Palestine Comments Closed
The Palestine Securities Exchange (PSE) Announces the Fourth of April its Listing Date on the Palestine Exchange
RAMALLAH, Palestine, March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Ahmad Aweidah, Chief Executive Officer of the Palestine Exchange announced the listing and trading date of the PSE on the fourth of April 2012. The listing ceremony will be held in Ramallah on the fifteenth trading anniversary of the Palestine Exchange.
March 26, 2012
Tags: ahmad-aweidah, determination, dubai-financial, establishment, jordanian-dinar, listing, Palestine, pse, public-relations, restructuring Posted in: Palestine Comments Closed
Søvndal guarantees aid but not statehood for Palestine
The Palestine Territories are to receive 120 million kroner of Danish aide over the next three years, foreign minister Villy Svndal said today in an interview with Politiken newspaper.
March 26, 2012
Tags: conflict, continuing, danish, denmark, financial, governments, iceland, Israel, million-kroner, Palestine, palestinians, villy-svndal, wants-consumers, well-as-funding Posted in: Palestine Comments Closed
Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Newspapers Review: Dailies Focus on Israeli Threats to Punish PA
RAMALLAH, March 26, 2012 (WAFA) – Monday’s issue of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies highlighted Israeli threats of punitive measures against the Palestinian Authority (PA) following the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) decision to set up a fact-finding mission on the implications of Israeli settlements on Palestinian life in the occupied territories.
March 26, 2012
Tags: ettlements-on-palestinian, following-the-united, human-rights, implications, israeli, mission-on-the, occupied, palestinian, the-three, unhrc, united, united-nations, wafa Posted in: Palestine Comments Closed
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