The OECD has lost 4 million Palestinians
The OECD’s recent report on the statistics of Israel shows that the Israeli government succeeded in manipulating the organization into accepting Israel’s perspective - according to which Palestinians simply do not exist.
In May 2010, Israel was Shir Hever is an Israeli economist and commentator who researches the economic aspects of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. This article may be reproduced on condition that JNews is cited as its source 
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Unwelcome in Israel
Want to visit the West Bank? Don’t try flying to Ben Gurion airport: you won’t be welcome
It is impossible to visit the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) without going through Israeli border control.
Shir Hever is an Israeli economist and commentator who researches the economic aspects of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
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The Boycott Train is Gaining Speed
Deutsche Bahn (DB), the German state-owned railway company, has announced that it will withdraw from cooperating w
Shir Hever is an Israeli economist and commentator who researches the economic aspects of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
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The Middle East and North Africa – the end of the Cold War legacy?
As Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu prepares for a visit to Washington to meet US President Obama, and US envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell announces a dramatic resignation, Glyn Secker examines the possibilities for the adoption of a new US policy in the Middle East.
US foreign policy in the Middle East dates from its post-WWII Cold War with the USSR over spheres of influence. Throughout the second half of the 20th century, Israel was central to this policy.
Glyn Secker is a member of Jews for Justice for Palestinians and was Captain of the Jewish Boat To Gaza, September 2010.
Photo by Vish Vishvanath.
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Sharp increase in house demolitions in the West Bank
Demolitions trigger fears for the future of Palestinian rural communities
A sharp increase in house demolitions in Area C of the West Bank occurred in July.
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Related item by UN OCHA (December 2009): http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/special_focus_area_c_…
Map by Peace Now
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Rights group fears sweeping deportations from West Bank
New military orders due to come into effect on 13 April could open the door to imprisonment and deportation of any person living in the Occupied West Bank.
New amendments to the current Israel Defence Force (IDF) Order regarding Prevention of Infiltration and the Order regarding Security Provisions, seek to expand the definition of th
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Further reading:
Hamoked’s letter to IDF Central Command
Order regarding Prevention of Infiltration (Amendment 2)
Order regarding Security Provisions (Amendment 112)
Order regarding Prevention of Infiltration (1969)
Photo of Etzion District Coordinating Office (DCO) by Mika Ginsburg, MachsomWatch
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New Israeli settlement founded on the West Bank
Settler activities over Passover: New outpost founded in an abandoned West Bank Palestinian village; settler tour of settlements in East Jerusalem
A group of hard-line settlers has marked the Passover festival by taking over an abandoned Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, with the aim of founding a new settlement t
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Photo of Atara/Bir Zeit checkpoint by Tamar Fleischman, MachsomWatch
Photo of settlement in Silwan by Nir Yahav
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Land Day protests attended by thousands in Israel, OPT
Several protestors injured while attempting to approach Gaza border
Published 30 March 2010. Updated and corrected 04 April 2010
Several people were injured on Tuesday while participating in one of several marches toward the Gaza borders as a part of Land Day protests.
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This piece corrects and replaces a piece published 30 March 2010
See here for Adalah’s interactive map and database on land expropriation in Israel .
Further reading:
Israel’s new Land Reform Law, passed 3 August 2009, authorizes privatization of lands and will discriminate between Jews and non-Jews: Adalah paper http://www.arabisto.com/article/Blogs/PRNEWS/080409_Ne…
Poster artist: Jamal Afghani
Photo by Shay Vaknin, Ynet
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Budrus – paradoxical hope in a threatened Palestinian village
A US-Israeli-Palestinian film team documents villagers’ bitter battle to save their land from Israel’s encroaching Separation Wall
Budrus the village is in the Ramallah district of the occupied West Bank, very near the pre-1967 Israeli border.
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Map by Ha’aretz
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A land for all its people?
Ran Greenstein examines a new civil initiative that looks beyond the one-state/two-states paradigm
In the last decade, political debate on the Left has focused on the one-state/two-states issue.
Ran Greenstein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa. He has written extensively on the genealogies of the conflicts in Palestine/Israel and South Africa.
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