On Saturday morning, 30 to 35 masked Israeli settlers stormed the village of At-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills. Armed with metal clubs, slingshots, knives, and stones, the attackers targeted the house closest to the edge of the woods. International observers stationed in the village arrived in time to witness and document the final phases of the assault. Michael Carpenter investigated for Palestine Monitor.
The rolling hills south of Hebron are home to some of the poorest Palestinian communities in the West Bank, and in recent years, some of the most radical Israeli settlers have come here. At-Tuwani is a small traditional village of about 250 residents and a focal point of the region's tensions. At the south tip of the village, near the edge of a densely wooded hill, is Beit Juma, the large home of the Rabai extended family. At 10:45 AM, not long after Juma and one of his brothers had gone to a neighbouring village, the attack came from the trees without warning.
Right: Beit Juma, home of Rabai family, with woods in background, where the settler attack came from.
The Rabais say that up to ten people from their family and village suffered minor injuries from stones or beating. One woman, four months pregnant, was hurt in a fall as she fled the violence. She was taken to the hospital and returned in good condition.
A pregnant woman is taken to hospital after minor injuries. Photo: Operation Dove.
Shortly after, by about 11:30, police, army, and border patrol arrived, taking statements, photos, and collecting evidence, including multiple large knives. Later in the afternoon, some of the Rabai family, accompanied by members of Operation Dove, filed an official complaint at the police station in Kiryat Arba (the Israeli settlement in Hebron). "The first thing they asked my brother," says Musab Rabai incredulously, "was 'Who beat the settlers?'" He laughs. "Not, 'Why were settlers in the home?'" The residents of At-Tuwani are not confident the attackers will be prosecuted.
Although the weekend marked a dramatic escalation of Israeli settler hostility, the events were just the latest in the troubled history of the besieged village. Every year, the growing settlement of Ma'on (established 1981 on a neighbouring hill) de facto annexes more and more of the village's pastureland. In the last several years, shepherds, school children, and international observers have been beaten, the drinking well and grazing land have been poisoned, animals have been killed, and property has been vandalised. Scores of incidents have been documented in photos and videos by international monitors such as Operation Dove.
A well that was poisoned, with the Rabai home (left) and the woods of the illegal settlement (right). Photo: Michael Carpenter.
The Italian peace corps, along with Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT), have maintained a constant presence in the village since they were invited by the Palestinians in 2004. The local community had already committed to peaceful resistance in co-operation Hafez Huraini and the South Hebron Hills Committee for popular non-violent resistance.
The illegal outpost of Havat Ma'on, Hill 833, viewed from the south west.
Concealed in the trees, about a hundred meters from the south edge of the village, is the settler outpost known as Hill 833, or Havat Ma'on. Under international law, all Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal, but this outpost is also illegal under Israeli law. First established in 1999, just south-west of the woods, the outpost was quickly dismantled by Israeli authorities, but by the end of the year, the renegade settlers had relocated inside the woods. Since then, they have entrenched themselves, continued building within the trees, and continued to harass the local population, all with apparent impunity from the Israeli authorities. Equally disturbing, settlers from this outpost, including Yosef Ben Barach and its founder Yehoshefat Tor, have ties to the radical group Kach, which is a designated terrorist organisation by both the United States and Israel for inciting violence and attempting to bomb Palestinian schools in Jerusalem.
Israeli troops have been accused of stealing from activists arrested in the assault on the Gaza flotilla after confiscated debit cards belonging to activists were subsequently used.
In their raid of 31 May, the Israeli army stormed the boats on the flotilla and, as well as money and goods destined for the Palestinian relief effort in Gaza, the bulk of which have yet to be returned, took away most of the personal possessions of the activists when taking them into custody.
Individual soldiers appear to have used confiscated debit cards to buy items such as iPod accessories, while mobile phones seized from activists have also been used for calls.
Ebrahim Musaji, 23, of Gloucester, has a bank statement showing his debit card was used in an Israeli vending machine for a purchase costing him 82p on 9 June.
It was then used on a Dutch website, http://www.thisipod.com, twice on 10 June: once for amounts equivalent to £42.42 and then for £37.83. And a Californian activist, Kathy Sheetz, has alleged that she has been charged more than $1,000 in transactions from vending machines in Israel since 6 June.
Musaji and Sheetz were on board two separate boats – one the Mavi Marmara, on which nine Turkish activists were killed, the other on the Challenger 1. Both activists only entered Israel when arrested, and were in custody for their entire time on Israeli soil.
"They've obviously taken my card and used it," Musaji told the Guardian.
"When they take things like people's videos and debit cards and use them, and their mobile phones, it becomes a bit of a joke.
Musaji cancelled his card on 7 June, the day after he returned to Britain, where he is a support worker for adults with learning difficulties. His bank has agreed to treat the transactions as fraudulent and he will not be charged for them. His mobile phone was also used for two short calls in Israel after it had been confiscated.
Another American activist, David Schermerhorn, 80, from Washington state, claims his iPhone was used, while Manolo Luppichini, an Italian journalist, said his card was debited with the equivalent of €54 after it was confiscated.
Activists say Israel still has possession of at least £1m of goods and cash, comprising aid and personal possessions, including laptops and cameras.
Some passports, three of them belonging to British citizens, have still not been returned. On Thursday, delegations in 12 countries, including the UK, held meetings with their respective governments to exert pressure on Israeli to return the seized property.
A spokeswoman for the Israeli embassy in London advised Musaji to register a formal complaint.
LONDON // The introduction of a network of more than 200 CCTV cameras giving blanket coverage of two predominantly Muslim areas of Birmingham is to be postponed after furious protests.
Muslim, civil rights and community groups were enraged after it emerged earlier this month that the cameras were not primarily for crime prevention and detection, but were paid for by the police for anti-terrorism surveillance.
It led to accusations that, because of the concentration of Muslim families in the Washwood Heath and Sparkbrook districts of the city, the police had stigmatised the area as a terrorist ghetto.
The Safer Birmingham Partnership, the joint city council/police organisation that installed the cameras, backed down yesterday after mounting protests and a parliamentary motion condemning the move, and announced that the 218 cameras would not be switched on in August as planned.
About 60 of the cameras are hidden in buildings or trees. Another 150 are on roadside poles and monitor every vehicle entering the two districts. When the cameras first started going up in April, the Safer Birmingham Partnership said it had received a £3 million (Dh16m) grant from the Home Office to improve community safety and reduce crime.
However, The Guardian newspaper revealed earlier this month that the cameras were actually financed through the Association of Chief Police Officers' fund for terrorism. The stated objective of the fund is to finance projects that "deter or prevent terrorism or help to prosecute those responsible". Amid mounting anger in the two communities, civil rights lawyers threatened legal action, Roger Godsiff, the Labour MP for the area, tabled a motion condemning the move as a "grave infringement of civil liberties" and, after several public meetings, a petition was started calling on Chris Sims, the chief constable of the West Midlands, to resign.
Mr Godsiff said yesterday: "I put down an early day motion in the House of Commons expressing my concern about the way it had been handled and saying that there should be proper public consultation before the cameras are activated.
The total of 150 number plate recognition cameras in the two areas is more than three times the total in the rest of Birmingham, which has a population of just over a million, about 15 per cent of them Muslims.
Announcing the postponement of the switching on of the network pending consultation with the two communities, the Safer Birmingham Partnership said in a statement: "We apologise for these mistakes, which regrettably may have undermined public confidence in the police and the council.
However, city councillors, including the deputy leader of the council, Paul Tilsley, and Ayoub Khan, the councillor in charge of community safety programmes, said they had not been involved in the decision to install the cameras and that it had purely been in the hands of police.
Mr Khan yesterday welcomed the move to defer the deployment of the cameras and called on the police to physically cover them up to reassure residents that they were not being used, otherwise many residents "will not believe they are inactive".
Mr Choudhry said that some in the community were sceptical about the belated consultation and that, eventually, the cameras would go live regardless of local opinion.
Birmingham is not regarded as one of the hotbeds of Muslim extremism in Britain, although five young men were convicted in 2008 of a plot to capture and behead a soldier to protest against the UK's involvement in Afghanistan.
Bethlehem: Spare medical parts and replacements are, in practice, barred from entry into Gaza, or only arrive "after great delays," a World Health Organization spokesman told Ma'an on Friday.
Following the release of a report from the WHO on Gaza City's Ash-Shifa Hospital, the spokesman emphasized that beyond the impeded access to parts, engineers are unable to enter Gaza to service the equipment. "Life saving equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars has been held up in Ramallah for over six months," the statement said.
In the WHO's profile, it says that most of the medical diagnostic equipment in Ash-Shifa hospital, a 560-bed facility in Gaza City, remains out of order. The CT scan, MRI, mammography, endoscope and gastroscope, a statement said, have all been waiting for service or spare parts for months, in some cases years.
The blockade Israel has imposed on the territory for the past three years is affecting the functioning of medical equipment threefold, the report found, with prohibitions, delays, and lack of qualified service personnel and power cuts/surges damaging delicate machines.
According to the WHO report, a replacement machine is available in a warehouse in Ramallah, only "80 kilometres from Gaza city as the crow flies," the report noted, adding "it has been lying there for over six months," but has yet to receive clearance from Israeli crossings officials.
WHO officials say "patients with chronic diseases are particularly hard hit by the lack of appropriate equipment," particularly the 200 odd dialysis patients served three times every week. A lack of dialysis machines means patients receive only half their necessary treatment, exposing them to severe health risks, while others are asked to come in for treatment during the late hours of the night and early morning, the statement reported.
Turkey has frozen billions of dollars worth of defense deals with Israel in the wake of the Israeli Navy's deadly raid on a humanitarian bound flotilla to the Gaza Strip, according to Turkish media.
Some of the 16 scrapped projects include a $5 billion deal in which Ankara was to receive 1,000 Merkava Mark III tanks from Israel, a $50 million plan to upgrade Turkish M-60 tanks, and a $800 million agreement to buy two Israeli patrol aircrafts and an Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft.
Turkey has also abandoned a $632.5 million deal for 54 F-4 Phantom, and a $75 million program for 48 F-5 fighter bombers.
Bilateral corporate deals in the private sector would continue as usual unless so decided by the companies, according to Today's Zaman.
The decision regarding the defense sector was made due to Israel's refusal to apologize or offer concessions for the deaths of the nine Turkish citizens it killed aboard the Mavi Marmara on May 31, said Zaman.
Turkey said it does not know if or when it would decide to send its ambassador back to the Zionist entity, according to the newspaper, though such a move would depend on Israel's agreement to send a representative to a United Nations investigatory commission into the raid.
Turkey will refuse to recognize Israel's internal inquiry into the incident at all levels, according to Zaman. "An apology is Israel's exit if it really wants to normalize relations with Turkey, and we are firm in our demand for an apology," Zaman quoted a diplomat as saying.
"Destroying such ties is easier than establishing them. But we are ready to face the negative impact of cutting these ties in an eventual absence of an apology from the Israeli side," said the diplomat.
Turkey is considering downgrading its ties with Israel to a "charge d'affairs" level, as they were in the 1980s, according to Zaman.
Legendary songwriter, performer and peace activist, Tommy Sands's scheduled performance at the "Festival Bloomsday Concert " Sunday June 20 has been canceled.
The appearance was canceled after Sands refused to be censored during his performance. Sands was asked by the organizers of the events, the Israeli- Ireland Friendship League, in association with the Municipality of Ramat Hasharon, to not perform "Peace on the Shores of Gaza," the song he had written as the anthem for the MV Rachel Corrie that set sail from Ireland to Gaza.
This comes shortly after Ireland's recent decision to expel an Israeli diplomat after an investigation over the assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai earlier this year. The investigation proved that the eight Irish passports used by suspects in the assassination, an operation supposedly under Israeli intelligence, had been forged.
Despite the recent increase of artists boycotting Israel by canceling their performances, Sands has taken an alternative approach to the boycott, by performing in Israel, Palestine and Gaza during his tour. Sands recalls friends and colleagues in Ireland urging him not to come after the Flotilla crisis, fearing for his safety as a peace activist.
During his performance last week at the Yellow Submarine in Jerusalem, Tommy received an invitation to play at the weekly Sheikh Jerrah demonstration in East Jerusalem this Friday. Sands accepted the invitation despite the fact that it was not a planned venue for the tour.
Make no mistake, the likes of Biden will be obliged to eat their words.
I bet you've never heard of anti-Palestinism? In Israel and the United States, defaming and delegitimizing the Palestinians is a national sport; but have you ever heard anybody complain about it? Why didn't Americans get worked up when 1,400 Palestinians were incinerated with Israeli phosphorous bombs? Why did the murder of 300 children in last year's assault not touch a nerve? Why did it take three long years and the slaughter of eight Turks and a Turkish-American citizen to notice that Israel has incarcerated 1.5 million Palestinians in a concentration camp?
What if you were Palestinian shell shocked by decades of the world's collective indifference? What would you tell your children? Is there any way to explain to a child why his people were ethnically cleansed to make room for a State as Jewish as England is English?
Why do pundits and politicians in the West get away with denying that the Palestinians are the indigenous people of the Holy Land? Why do we allow Israelis and their supporters to denigrate the historic rights of the Palestinians to live in the only homeland they've ever known? How is it that we don't notice that, even today, half the population of historic Palestine is of native stock?
Why do the treasonous intellectuals of the West routinely allow Zionists to unabashedly declare their 'right' to settle in the Holy Land? Are they really that ignorant of the ethnic cleansing that dispossessed the Palestinians in 1948 or have they been afflicted by the epidemic of anti-Palisitinism? With or without a state, should we accord the Palestinians the right to exist and what kind of existence are they entitled to?
It's one thing to talk about the facts on the ground and despair at the remote possibilities of a just solution for Palestinian problem. Because we all know what it would take to accord Palestinians the full spectrum of rights that we all take for granted. We all have the right to leave and return to the places where we were born – to the sacred land where our forefathers are buried. But if the Palestinians make legitimate claims to exercise that most basic of rights, they are accused of denying the right of Israel to exist.
Simply put, if international law applied to Palestinians, we would have to restore their rights to live anywhere in their ancestral homeland. But that's not in the cards – because they're nothing more than Palestinians and anti-Palestinism is the law of the land. If we were of a mind to accord them their legitimate rights, we would be obliged to issue every Palestinian refugee a visa to return to the Holy Land and we all know where that might lead – a country where immigrant European Jews and their descendents would be 'deprived' of an exclusive Jewish state.
Heaven forbid we should even attempt to persuade Israeli Jews to grant equal rights to the indigenous population. See, that would be considered anti-Zionism which is now deemed indistinguishable from anti-Semitism. The whole notion that there ever was an indigenous population in the Holy Land is a taboo subject. When it comes to the Palestinians, we cast reason aside and conveniently forget history, demographics and DNA. Who died and gave the Israelis and their dispensationalist Armageddon worshiping allies a license to make the absurd claim that Ethiopian and Moldavian Jews are the original natives of Palestine. Who issued the Israeli Lobbyists a pass to substitute their scripture for international law? Who says Jews are chosen and the Palestinians are not. And tell me again; if you're not chosen, I imagine that means you're cursed. How derogatory is that?
If you probe Zionist theology, you'll see the logic behind the core Zionist argument. Palestinian Christians and Muslims deserved to be ethnically cleansed because they abandoned the 'right' religious traditions. Think about that because it's a real simple concept to digest. If the Zionists had shown up on the shores of Palestine and found the natives still practicing Judaism, they wouldn't have evicted them from their homes or expropriated their lands. Every Palestinian understands that. They also understand that if they had obliged the Zionists and converted to Judaism, they might have been spared an eviction notice and all the carnage that has plagued them for two generations. You want to know the original sins of the Palestinians – some of them put their faith in Jesus and gave up Judaism for Orthodox Christianity and others went a step further and embraced Islam. Had they stuck to their ancient Jewish traditions, they would never have tasted the bitter fruit of exile and dispossession.
Today, we have six million nuclear armed Zionists in full control of the entire historical boundaries of Palestine and another six million Palestinian natives living under the military rule of a Jewish supremacist state. Even in 'Israel proper', 20% of the citizens are descendents of the indigenous people of the Holy Land. Just to give you a perspective, at the height of the civil rights movement, only 12% of Americans were of African descent. I challenge anybody to compare the worst excesses of the segregationist south to the draconian laws that apply to Palestinians living under military occupation.
The toll in the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland was 13. Last week, the British finally got around to apologizing for that crime but will they ever get around to making amends for the Balfour Declaration? Even the racist Apartheid regime in South Africa didn't kill the way Israel kills. In 1976, five hundred Africans were slaughtered in the Soweto uprising. Not that the world paid much attention to the carnage – but compare that figure to the 1,400 civilians who were slaughtered in Gaza last year. Does the State Department keep a tally of how many Palestinians have been butchered since the Zionists came to build a 'Jewish homeland' on their native soil?
Did the Palestinians deserve what happened to them? If they had been left unmolested by the British and the Zionists, what kind of country would they have now? That's what the world looks like from Palestinian eyes? Why us and why doesn't anybody care? They've stolen our homeland – can't the Israelis at least leave us with the memories of what was and what could have been? Before they set their covetous eyes on our towns and villages in the West Bank, can't they take a deep breath, hang their head in shame and step back to the land they've already vanquished?
Why are the Israelis given a carte blanche to falsify history? Why is Nakba denial not considered beyond the pale? Indeed, why is the 'Nakba' not part of our daily vocabulary?
Why was Joseph Biden not taken to task when he publicly avowed his allegiance to Zionist ideology? Where was the public outcry? Why didn't anybody call for his immediate resignation? What exactly did the Vice President of the United States mean to say? Those words have a very clear meaning – they are an expression of the vilest form of anti-Palestinism? When somebody utters them – every Palestinian understands their meaning? It means that Palestine never had a right to exist – that it was a disposable country that deserved to be eradicated off the face of the earth. I know Joseph Biden is a bigot for uttering those words; the problem is he doesn't. Worst still, he feels righteous in saying them – as righteous as any true blue segregationist who applauded Jim Crow laws – as righteous as any Nazi German who believed that European Jews deserved to be transferred – as righteous as any Zionist who believes the Palestinians should be ethnically cleansed to make room for Eretz Israel.
The thing about Zionists who openly spew their anti-Palestinism is not their support of the right of Israel to exist but their subscription to the obscene notion that Palestinians deserved to lose their homeland. In formulating a resolution of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, it is one thing to accommodate current demographic and political realities and quite another to say that Israel had the right to come into existence over the carcass of Palestine. We can acknowledge and deal with the end result of the nauseating refuse of Israeli history without justifying the cruelty inflicted on the Palestinians. Tribes have eradicated tribes for centuries. But last I checked, this is the 21st Century. What might have been considered acceptable conduct at the peak of the European colonialism should not be condoned today. We've dealt with segregationist southerners and the radical Apartheid regime and we can work a humane resolution to the plight of the indigenous people of the Holy Land without cheering Zionist racists or denigrating their Palestinian victims.
Anti-Palestinism deprives us of the moral clarity that is essential to a resolution of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. We need to start recognizing anti-Palestinism for what it is – hate speech. That day will come when every pundit and every politician will rue the day they publicly flaunted their anti-Palestinism. Make no mistake, in the not so distant future, bigots like Joseph Biden will be obliged to eat their words and apologize for their blatant espousal of ethnic cleansing. When anti-Palestinism becomes a crime, Biden is the first person the Palestinians should sue.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and US special envoy George Mitchell met in Ramallah Friday afternoon and discussed the peace process between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
The meeting focused on the progress of proximity talks between the two parties. Top PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat said that Abbas requested that Mitchell provide clarifications on reports that Israel plans to build 1,600 housing units in the occupied east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo.
Erekat said Mitchell told Abbas that the US promise to the Palestinians that there would be no further construction in the settlements was still valid.
Erekat added that Abbas demanded that the US Administration work to lift the siege on the Gaza Strip and ensure that all the basic needs of the Strip's population are met. The negotiator said Abbas demanded that the movement of goods between the Strip and the West Bank be permitted, and said the blockade is a form of collective punishment that cannot continue.
He stressed that all six crossings into Gaza should be opened and said reports of easement are not enough and the siege should be completely lifted.
"President Abbas insisted during the meeting on the need for a continuation of US efforts to achieve the complete end of the Gaza blockade," his spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina told AFP following talks in Ramallah, the political capital of the occupied West Bank.
Mitchell met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday and was due in Egypt on Saturday for talks with its leaders.
Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif also made similar statements hours before the Abbas-Mitchell meeting. "Israel must lift its blockade on the Gaza Strip," he said, stressing that his country has done its part by re-opening the Rafah crossing after three years of closure.
Amid efforts by European states to impose unilateral sanctions on Iran, a senior Iranian official warns that confrontational policies will bear no fruit.
"The policy of imposing sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program will not help to settle the disputes but will inflict the most damage to the European firms," Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Ahani said in a meeting with State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office, Wolf-Ruthart Born on Thursday. He dismissed the dual-track policy of diplomacy and sanctions as "deceitful and useless" and urged the European countries to end their confrontational approach towards Iran.
"The European Union will face an appropriate and firm response from Iran should it pursue the policy of imposing sanctions," Ahani said. He pointed to the new resolution passed by the UN Security Council on June 9 imposing the fourth round of sanctions on Iran and said the new sanctions against Iran are counterproductive.
The Iranian deputy foreign minister added that countries which voted for the recent UN resolution only aim to undermine the interactive approach of the Tehran nuclear declaration.
Based on the declaration, issued by Iran, Brazil and Turkey on May 17, Tehran announced readiness to exchange 1,200 kg of its low enriched uranium on Turkish soil for fuel for its medical research reactor.
Born, for his part, said that Germany and the EU will pursue their diplomatic efforts to lift sanctions imposed on Iran.
Istanbul: After the Mavi Marmara incident politicians saw the benefits of raising your voices to Israel. But to do it effectively and succeed, you must be independent to some extent.
We can see in the last few days that this decision is already made. This kind of war is much more difficult than wars made by bombs and bullets and also incredibly risky. With patience and perseverance I hope we succeed.
This war that has just begun is a very critical war for Turkey and we are facing major powers. The dangers Turkey will face are enormous. But without taking those huge risks there is no future for Turkey.
In critical situations like this we shouldn't expect to find a lot of confirmed information. But if we analyze "open information" from the internet we can reach some conclusions.
The other day there were two very important security meetings in Turkish capitol Ankara. Both of these meetings were attended by military officials of the highest rank, defense industry representatives, ministers, and the PM of Turkey. These meetings lasted many hours.
If you put these two meetings side by side, we can assume that very important decisions will be made. We can also say that they are trying to realize important decisions because there are powers (local & foreign) that don't want this to occur.
Every time relations between Turkey and Israel/USA are in crisis, I always think how dependent our military is on the US.
As a NATO member almost all our jets, tanks, missiles, radars, electronics etc. are bought from the US. Nobody exactly knows what the software is in these war machines. And as you can guess, without the software all the weapons are worthless.
The software are usually developed by US and lately by Israel. This means you cannot use these weapons against the will of the sellers. Worse the weapons could be disabled when you need them most, during a war. Also the software can be modified, changed or disabled from US satellites.
Also it is a known fact that the inventories of the Turkish armed forces are closely monitored by Pentagon. This way the Turkish army can get inventories needed but at which cost?
It is estimated that the Turkish Army depends on the US for %70 of their weapon systems.
Turkey has decided a long time ago to reduce this dependency by developing software locally. As you can guess neither US nor Israel wanted to help or give the source codes of these systems.
Turkish software experts can break these codes but it can easily be changed again remotely by USA and Israel. This means Turkey must develop its own software and it has already started to so.
At this stage the Italians come into the picture. Their Augusta helicopters are fitted with an independent software. And as we have heard they are also willing to share the source codes with the Turkish Military.
The purchase of 140 helicopters is planned from Augusta. Also 9 helicopters that are urgently needed in Turkey are rumored to be delivered soon. This means Turkey made a very important step to become independent.
Do these separate incidents have anything to do what I have written above?
Well, I don't have any classified documents, I can only make educated guesses, but my senses say, the answer is YES.
Amidst efforts to create a positive atmosphere for peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, Israel to discuss demolishing 22 Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem.
Last time Mitchell visited the region on May 20, some 56 members of Knesset in Israel signed a statement calling on the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, to resume the construction in Ariel settlement in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli "Planning and Construction Committee" will discuss on Monday a plan put forth by Jerusalem Mayor, Nir Barkat, to demolish dozens of Arab homes in Silwan neighborhood in East Jerusalem.
The plan aims at constructing an "Archeological Garden" in Al Bustan neighbored; the neighbored contains 80 Arab homes allegedly built without a permit.


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Top YouTubers immortalised in Minecraft action figure form
By Sean Keach
Deputy News & Features Editor
May 20, 2015 6:11 pm BST
Several YouTube stars have been given their own range of action figures. Yes, you read that correctly.
A host of top Minecraft streamers can now be purchased in stumpy, plastic form, courtesy of Toys R Us.
The new range is called 'Tube Heroes', and is set to officially launch in stores on May 22.
Considering how popular both Minecraft and YouTube are with the younger generations, it's a surprisingly sensible business ploy.
Related: Best iPhone Games 2015
Right, so which YouTubers can you buy? There are four available, namely Sparklez, AntVenom, ExplodingTNT, and AshleyMarieeGaming – you know, those household names.
While you may not have heard of these net-famous individuals, they've all got impressive subscriber bases thanks to Minecraft.
This isn't the first time Minecraft figures have been sold in toy stores, mind. But we've never seen YouTubers converted into action figure form before.
Check out the video below to see the new toys (skip to 2:41):
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Being Muslim' offers an alternative history of Islam in America
A scholar of American and gender studies at Rutgers University, she was raised in California by Chinese immigrants who were culturally Buddhist but not religious. In high school, she was nearly baptized but decided against it. (The pastor said she couldn't attend a Madonna concert.) When she began working on her doctorate at the University of California at Berkeley in 2001, shortly after the Los Angeles riots, she wanted to explore the intersections between Asian- and African-American communities.
Then the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, happened.
She soon began collaborating on anti-racism initiatives with Muslim and Arab activist groups in the Bay Area. "I quickly realized that the same racial dynamics that I was studying between African-Americans and Asian-Americans were all present within Muslim communities," Chan-Malik said.
She began documenting the ways U.S. Muslims were trying to constitute their identities and grapple with cultural differences to find a political voice. In the course of her research, she found herself drawn to the faith and converted in 2004.
Her new book, "Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam," walks readers through the largely forgotten history of Muslim women of color in the past century. She begins with black women in the Ahmadiyya and Nation of Islam movements and ends by exploring how women of color today defiantly practice Islam against the backdrop of the Trump presidency and the ongoing war on terror. "In the narrative of American Islam, there's this complete omission of these black Muslim women who are so critical to its making," she says.
Chan-Malik spoke to Religion News Service about Islamic feminism, the fixation on the veil and why it's critical to understand American Muslims through the lenses of race and gender. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Your book diverges from the popular narrative of Muslims becoming American to look at people in America being Muslim. How does your personal background shape your research?
In my own experience learning how to practice religion, I've always been very intimately aware to do it against whatever people were thinking — in my family, my community, my work, even walking down the street. 'Being Muslim' is a thing. You not only have to think about who you are, but you have to constantly be aware of how other people are perceiving you in your current environment, what happened in the news that day, how people are looking at you. That's what being Muslim is: a constant, active insurgency. You feel it in your body. To choose to be Muslim, even against all these things that might cause you harm or stress, is an insurgent act.
So "being Muslim" is something that connects all Muslim woman, as opposed to "becoming American," which is an experience something that's restricted mostly to immigrants over the past several decades. But it's the experience that's most often associated with Muslims today.
Can you have this experience of 'being Muslim' without being Muslim?
The actor Aziz Ansari wrote in The New York Times about how he left Islam a while ago. But the political climate has made him say, "OK, this is how I identify as a Muslim because of the ways in which other people see me and my parents." So he recognizes that he shares this experience with other Muslims in this country.
That's in line with the experience of racialized minorities in this country. If you think about what connects Asian-Americans and African-Americans and Latinx people — there is no real common thread except for how they're racialized in the same way.
Today you can't really talk about Muslim women without discussing the hijab or burqa. Has that always been the case?
In the U.S. it only starts coming up at the end of the 1970s. In my own research combing through all the New York Times and other news coverage prior to that, they would just mention in travel coverage that, oh, they were in Morocco and the women dress like this. It wasn't something stressed in media coverage, and it definitely wasn't demonized or fetishized how it is now.
This really changed in 1979. It was never seen as a threat until the rise of oil politics became the pre-eminent marker of our relationship with Iran and the region. That was also a moment in which the second-wave feminist movement was looking for an international cause. This issue then connected oil politics with the ways in which white feminists were trying to go global. They could say, "Hey, we can go there and be useful to these poor women around the world and show them how our values are superior." So the veil became a useful and convenient symbol.
The mention of women also cues up questions like: Is Islam compatible with feminism, and is there such a thing as Islamic feminism? How have Muslim women in the U.S. dealt with these questions?
A strong desire for women's empowerment and gender agency has been at the core of women's engagement with Islam for the past century. Even within what we might see as traditional, conservative family frameworks, they were trying to express agency and power in order to uplift their communities. Many Muslim women themselves would not call it feminism; they'd say, "I'm trying to empower my community" or "I'm trying to submit to Allah." I argue that this constitutes a desire for gendered liberation.
Aysha Khan
Being Muslim' offers an alternative history of Islam in America https://www.muslimworldtoday.org/being_muslim_offers_an_alternative_history_of_islam_in_america?recruiter_id=9388


During a typical workweek, I tend to collaborate with the same 20 people; just trying to reach them used to take up a lot of my day. Since we've implemented Cisco Unified Personal Communicator, I'm much more likely to reach them on the first try, making me more productive.
The engine behind Cisco Unified Personal Communicator is Cisco Unified Presence Server, which constantly collects information about Cisco employees' availability information, including whether they're online, on the phone, in do-not-disturb mode, or their Microsoft Exchange calendar shows they're in a meeting.
Since Cisco Unified Personal Communicator is an optional application, Cisco IT had to show employees that it would make their lives easier. Salespeople are accustomed to using two tools, a desktop phone and cell phone, so they needed to know how a new tool would help them work more efficiently. The materials we created included video on demand and online training guides that explain how to use the features and why they save time.
Aha #1: A list of voicemail messages appears right on screen, including the sender and length. That's very appealing for our mobile employees because it helps them manage their time more efficiency by responding to urgent messages first.
Aha #2: Cisco Unified Personal Communicator is fully compatible with the Mac OS. Our Mac users love having presence, IM, and a soft phone in one application.
Aha #3: You can also manage your desktop phone from within Cisco Unified Personal Communicator. I myself use the interface to set up call forwarding and start conferences on my desktop phone.
Initial adoption rate for Cisco Unified Personal Communicator was 25 to 30 percent in most countries, which is considered great for an optional application, and an unheard-of 50 percent in Japan and Hong Kong. Our analysis showed that the big variable in the rate of adoption is whether company leaders personally encourage employees to use Cisco Unified Personal Communicator. In Japan, for example, adoption rose to 35 percent within a week of the county manager's letter to employees talking about productivity benefits from reaching people on the first try, and to 50 percent in a month.
Cisco Unified Personal Communicator works with all standard Windows and Mac desktops in use at Cisco except the very oldest, whose processors are too slow for voice.
Our contact center agents will use presence to quickly find an available, qualified expert while the customer is still on the phone, helping to improve first-call resolution rate.
We're adding presence, click-to-call, and click-to-conference to other applications, a capability the industry is calling "communications-enabled business processes." As an example, we've embedded presence and click-to-dial into our internal Quoting and Deal Management system. To add presence and click-to-dial into an application, we use Cisco Unified Application Environment.
We're in the process of enriching Cisco Unified Presence with location data, so that employees will be able to see if coworkers are in the office or on the move.
We're integrating our on-premise presence information with presence information from the global Cisco WebEx Connect cloud. When the integration is complete, all of us at Cisco, plus certain customers and partners, will be able to see each other's real-time presence information and just click to connect. This is part of our Borderless Networks vision.
The unified communications clients we're rolling out for select mobile devices will also provide presence information.
Cisco Unified Communications Manager User Options web interface is an "interesting" product. It would be really nice if Cisco Unified Personal Communicator could take on the roll of this web interface.
For example, how about making the single number reach configuration available via CUPC? (And making it slightly more user friendly) How about call forwarding?
Additionally, having CUPC take on the functions Cisco Personal Communications Assistant (for Unity support) would be great. Notification devices, greetings, and more could be consolidated under CUPC, bringing together (for the first time) voice and voice mail support.
There is a lot of potential in this product.


There is no shortage of commentary on why mergers and acquisitions fail or do not live up to their projected potential. The percentage of failed or underachieving deals is astounding with some placing the failure rate over eighty percent.The reasons for this dismal outlook range from ill-advised strategic vision, misaligned expectations and poor execution to cultural clashes, fumbled integration, and (some would say) misguided management objectives.
Over the past decade I've observed another factor that contributes to these suboptimal results: poorly planned, constructed and executed transition services, especially in connection with divestitures and carve-outs. The two main factors contributing to deficient transition service arrangements fall into two general categories: (1) a flawed perspective on the importance of transition services; and (2) errant development and execution of the transition service regime.
Let's explore each of these factors both in terms of how they arise and how they can be avoided, focusing first on what I refer to as the flawed perspective.
These are short term arrangements of less importance: Since transition services are only temporary (and hopefully very short in duration), they really are of less importance. Our focus is really on the long term success of the business.
They pretty much relate to the back-office (and we need to focus on our customers and revenue drivers): Transition services mostly involve back-office operations, which don't drive valuations or contribute to the bottom line. We need to focus on revenue growth and our customers.
While at first glance these statements seem reasonable, they in fact underlie a host of conceptual shortfalls that drive behaviors which, at best, dilute the effectiveness of the post-closing enterprise and, in the worst case, result in unmitigated risks that can result in lost business, reduced revenues, or unanticipated liabilities.
With regard to the "short term" mindset, while these services generally are in place on for an interim period, they serve as a bridge to the broader (and longer term) integration of enterprise operations (both back office and front line). The thought that "we can fix things later" after the closing dust settles is a misstep that can lead to day-one business continuity issues (like interruptions in employee access to key systems), inefficiencies, (like additional license costs for unaccounted for but needed software), and employee dissatisfaction that can tug at the cultural fabric of the company. Not surprisingly, issues of this nature can (and often do) impact the customer and potentially the bottom line. This leads to my second point.
Exploiting the Mission – The transition service regime must enable each impacted enterprise to better exploit the target synergies that drove the transaction in the first place.
Put another way, whether market-driven, opportunistic or as part of a broader strategy, what management (and the shareholders) really care about is exploiting the intended synergies to drive value. If there are transition services, they should be aligned with these objectives.
In the second installment on this topic, I will focus on the perils of poor planning, inadequate diligence and incomplete execution in transition service arrangements, and how these perils can be avoided through a disciplined and efficient process leveraging the right terms, tools and templates.


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When it to comes building a website for a commercial business that could either be a furniture dealer or a hands-on contractor – it is important to understand the niche and try to build a website that does not cross over to another niche of similar business.
For example, an exterior painter might need a different website than an indoor painting company. The indoor painting company may also show various products that they sell, the different designs etc.
One of the important things we do here is regularly consult with other businesses that do commercial web designing, for example we are consulting partners with a Calgary Web Designer who recently finished a project for a Snow Removal Company.
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Hate Speech COMMENTARY — Erdoğan has ruined the lives of 1 million people in...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan has ruined the lives of 1 million people in Turkey
The criminal investigations, prosecutions and trials in politically motivated cases on trumped-up terrorism and coup plotting charges have ruined the lives of some 1 million people in Turkey, a country that is run by fanatical Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has declared war on a civic group popularly known as the Gülen movement.
Bekir Bozdağ, a former justice minister and now deputy prime minister in the Erdoğan government who briefed the parliamentary Interior Commission on Jan. 31, 2018, told lawmakers that some 300,000 people were listed as suspects in criminal cases that involved membership in the Gülen movement. That means the lives of approximately 1 million people were turned upside down and adversely impacted by the government witch-hunt in the last year when taking into account spouses and children in the average household. Let's not forget that the Erdoğan government goes to extremes in some cases by even dragging distant relatives of suspects into the criminal justice system, harassing and intimidating them due to assumed guilt by blood ties.
According to Bozdağ, 103,907 criminal investigations remain pending on charges of membership in and being an administrator of the Gülen movement. In terms of crimes against the constitutional order of the Republic of Turkey, in other words, coup plotting charges, there are 4,725 cases with a total of 11,228 suspects named. Criminal cases that combine both terrorism and coup plotting charges have 7,436 listed as suspects in 2,913 cases. In total, 214,442 people are considered to be suspects in 105,709 separate criminal investigations in Turkey. The total number of fugitives stands at 14,191.
Even these figures, which relate only to the investigative phase, do not tell the whole story. Bozdağ also revealed the number of cases that have moved into the indictment and trial stages. Accordingly, 88,400 people have been indicted and/or are being tried for alleged links to a terrorist group in 42,930 separate criminal cases against the Gülen movement, with 3,625 people listed as fugitives. Of these people, 20,406 are in pretrial detention. The other 50,927 are standing trial while free on their own recognizance but are subject to judicial supervision, such as travel bans and the requirement to check in with police on a regular basis.
A total of 12,300 people have been indicted and face trial on coup plotting charges in 1,415 criminal cases according to the government. Two hundred twelve people in this category remain at large. Again, in this category, 4,486 people are in pretrial detention, while the rest are subject to judicial supervision. In the third category of cases where suspects were charged under both anti-terror laws and crimes against the constitutional order, 10,534 defendants in 1,071 cases have been indicted and/or are being tried. In total, 90,166 people are under indictment and/or are standing trial in 43,274 criminal cases. Of them, 24,660 are in pretrial detention.
Although Bozdağ floated a lot of numbers in different stages of the heavily politicized criminal justice process, which is now being used to persecute political opponents, critics and dissidents, he deliberately omitted a key statistic from the tally: the number of people who were jailed during the investigative stages when there was no indictment and no trial. This is the stage where we see a large number of detainees who languish behind bars for months and in some cases years before they see a judge, indictment and evidence, if any. He told lawmakers he could not gather that data in time and did not want to mislead the commission members. How thoughtful of him. This is complete hogwash. The reason why we do not know how many of the 214,442 people who were listed as suspects during criminal investigations were in fact jailed is that the government does not want the world to know.
In fact, it was Bozdağ himself who ordered the staff of the Justice Ministry to stop publishing the daily data on the number of suspects and convicts who were incarcerated in Turkish prisons in 2017. The data had previously been posted on the statistics page of the National Judiciary Informatics System (UYAP), which is managed by the Justice Ministry. The website was last updated on March 18, 2017, showing 80,482 people in pretrial detention and 108,734 people as convicted and serving time. Even then, it was clear that there was a considerable spike in comparison to figures posted on the site a year earlier, on March 18, 2016, which showed 26,257 people in pretrial detention and 141,739 convicted of a crime. It corresponded to a 207 percent increase within a year of the number arrestees who had not yet been convicted.
Traditionally, people who were in pretrial detention were usually released pending trial during the indictment and trial phases because the evidence did not stand up to scrutiny and fell below the evidentiary threshold. Even with the current state of the judiciary, which is completely subordinated to the whims of the country's Islamist rulers, the pattern still holds although with a considerable reduction in the number releases. The government figures tell us that the ratio of imprisonment for defendants in the trial stage stands at roughly one-to-three, meaning that one in every three is being tried while incarcerated. It is difficult to apply that ratio to those who are indicted and/or tried and most likely the opposite ratio is in the offing because of the past pattern that is still valid ratio-wise. One thing, though, is crystal clear: The Erdoğan government has blatantly been abusing pretrial detention as a punishment in and of itself to boost the climate of fear in Turkey by putting so many people in jail only to release them when their trials start.
If we are to assume that two out of three who were detained are formally arrested and incarcerated pending indictment and trial, the number of suspects who are in jail would be estimated to be around 143,000. When suspects jailed during the post-investigative stage are added, the total number of defendants imprisoned on links to the Gülen movement would be 167,500. Even this figure sounds conservative. What we still do not know is how many were convicted and moved into a different category for which the government has never provided any figures.
Compounding matters more is the amnesty bill the government rushed through the rubberstamping Turkish Parliament in August 2016 that allowed for the release of 44,000 convicts who were serving time according to data provided to Nils Melzer, the United Nations special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, who talked to a representative of the General Directorate of Prisons and Houses of Detention on Nov. 28, 2016 during a visit to Turkey. Although the government claimed murderers and rapists were excluded from the amnesty, that turned out to be false. For example, Oğuzhan Aydın, who killed Father Andrea Santoro of the Saint Maria Catholic Church and was convicted of murder when he was caught with the murder weapon. He had been tried, convicted and sentenced 18 years, 10 months. With the amnesty, he was among those who were released.
With the caution that there may very well be some overlapping cases, 304,608 people who are alleged to have connections to the Gülen movement are currently being put through the criminal justice system in Turkey one way or another on terrorism and/or coup plotting charges. We also do not know about the number of people who were originally named as suspects and detained but freed when prosecutors dropped the charges against them. There is also an odd category of defendants who the government claims have aided and abetted terrorism although they are not members of the Gülen movement. Many prominent people including journalists, lawmakers and even foreign nationals were dumped in this category because of the aggravated sentences anti-terror laws carry in Turkey. The figures for these victims are not available, either.
We have recently been given a target figure that may indicate how far Erdoğan is willing to go with this witch-hunt. According to a paper issued in October 2017 by the police academy in Turkey after a workshop that was attended by prosecutors, academics, judges and other government officials, it was pointed out that 500,000 suspects from the Gülen movement had been identified by authorities. Participants of the workshop lamented that it was not possible to put all of them in prison because of the lack of the capacity in penal institutions. This shows the mindset in Turkey, and that is why the Erdoğan government is moving ahead with plans to build more and larger prisons across Turkey. Tracking the weekly number of detentions from the Interior Ministry, which publishes data on how many members of the Gülen movement are detained in a given week, shows that on average some 500 people are taken into police custody. The number may go as high as a thousand in some weeks and drop to 400 in others. In any case, there appears to be no letup in the campaign of rounding up members of the movement and putting them through the criminal justice system where they are tortured, abused and maltreated.
If half a million is the target, then the lives of some 2 million people would be destroyed as a result of this relentless crackdown. Perhaps we have only seen the tip of the iceberg in Turkey in terms of this massive crackdown on the Gülen movement, which has borne the brunt of the repressive regime as the main critic of the Erdoğan government. All this is happening before our eyes in a country that straddles Europe and Asia. The real assessment of how many lives this 21st century tyrant has ruined will only be known when the rule of law and the independent and critical media are both restored.
We certainly lack reliable data here, and the Turkish government tries to downplay the figures. But even the most conservative numbers and estimates based on the available data are beyond anything we could have imagined in Turkey only a few years ago. That is a quite painful but valuable lesson: If democratic backsliding is not stopped in its early stages, it can quickly morph into a giant avalanche that will crush anything standing its way and destroy any and everything else. (turkishminute.com)
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"No new letter by Albanians from south of Serbia, it's old news" (Tanjug, B92)
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Belgrade based news agency Tanjug reports that Ragmi Mustafa confirmed that Bujanovac mayor Shaip Kamberi, member of the Serbian National Assembly Fatmir Hasani and he did not send a new letter, with an initiative to join the finale of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, to Federica Mogherini and Hashim Thaci.
"There has been no new letter with the request of Albanian parties from the south of Serbia to participate in the conclusion of the Brussels dialogue." Ragmi Mustafa, president of the National Council of Albanians (NSA) said this on Thursday.
Mustafa said that Belgrade media yesterday instead repeated the news from four months ago.
According to him, this was done to "deliberately raise tensions at a critical time before the making of important decisions."
According to Tanjug, Pristina "annexing" the so-called Presevo valley – an area in the southern part of central Serbia with an ethnic Albanian population – is not merely "old news" – it is also an almost constant topic among Pristina politicians.
Tanjug reminds that yesterday, Hashim Thaci repeated in an interview for Radio Free Europe that he asked for the three municipalities – Bujanovac, Presevo, and Medvedja – to join Kosovo during a recent meeting in Berlin.
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Tagged With: B92, Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, Bujanovac, Kosovo President Thaci, Medvedja, Mogherini, Presevo Valley, Serbia, Tanjug
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Djuric: Vulin's position on delimitation is rational (TV N1, KoSSev)
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The Cuban government has strict laws prohibiting the importation of weapons. The Department of State warns all U.S. citizens against taking any type of firearm or ammunition into Cuba. Entering Cuba with a firearm or even a single round of ammunition is illegal, even if the weapon or ammunition is taken into Cuba unintentionally. The Cuban government strictly enforces laws restricting the entry of firearms and ammunition at airports and seaports, and routinely x-rays all incoming luggage. U.S. citizens entering Cuba with a weapon or ammunition (including even a small number of bullets), even accidentally, are subject to fines or possible imprisonment. Travelers are strongly advised to thoroughly inspect all belongings prior to travel to Cuba to avoid the accidental import of ammunition or firearms.


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