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July 11, 2011
In-Depth Issues:
U.S. Investigates Syrian Diplomats for Spying on U.S. Protesters - Eli Lake (Washington Times)
The State Department is investigating charges that Syrian diplomats are spying on Syrian anti-government demonstrators in Washington and other U.S. cities in order to intimidate their relatives in Syria.
Eric Boswell, assistant secretary for diplomatic security, last week summoned Syrian Ambassador Imad Moustapha to air "concerns with the reported actions of certain Syrian Embassy staff in the United States," the State Department said Friday.
"We received reports that Syrian mission personnel under Ambassador Moustapha's authority have been conducting video and photographic surveillance of people participating in peaceful demonstrations in the United States."
Gaza's Rocket Men Shoot for the Moon - Sharon Weinberger (Slate)
Abu Saif, a rocket maker for the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, is a fan of Google Earth. One recent evening in Gaza City, I sat next to him as he showed me how he used the popular satellite mapping program to target sites within Israel.
According to Abu Saif, more Soviet-era Grad rockets, whose range far exceeds the range of the homemade Kassams, have been coming through the tunnels, and all the militant factions now have them.
Sderot Adults, Children Traumatized by Rocket Fire (Ynet News)
According to a study conducted by Natal, a trauma center for victims of terror and war, 70% of the kids residing in Sderot, that has been on the receiving end of thousands of rockets in recent years, are suffering from at least one symptom of posttraumatic stress.
A third of all Sderot residents suffer from anxiety and have trouble functioning normally.
Israeli Umbrella NGO to Send Aid to South Sudan - Jeremy Sharon (Jerusalem Post)
IsraAid, an umbrella group of Israeli and Jewish humanitarian aid organizations, is preparing to send a consignment of humanitarian aid to the newly formed nation of South Sudan, the group said Sunday.
In addition, IsraAid teams have begun to plan for a long-term project aimed at providing assistance to vulnerable women and children living on the streets and in refugee camps around the capital city of Juba.
"It is our mission and Jewish commitment to reach out to our new friends in any way we can," said Shachar Zahavi, founding director of IsraAid.
More than 90% of the 9.1 million people in South Sudan live on a dollar a day.
See also South Sudan's Representative in Israel Has Big Plans - Ilan Lior (Ha'aretz)
U.S. Using Electronic Warfare in Libya - W.J. Hennigan (Los Angeles Times)
In the skies above Libya, the U.S. Navy has been deploying supersonic EA-18 Growler jets to "jam" Gaddafi's ground radar, giving NATO fighters and bombers free rein to strike tanks, communication depots and other strategic targets.
The U.S. is spending billions to develop jammers that spew radio waves and emit other electromagnetic noise to jumble enemy electronic signals.
As the defense budget is being eyed for cuts, electronic attack technology is one of the few areas - along with drones and cyber security - in which President Obama wants to boost spending.
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- Syrian Troops Describe Shooting Protesters - Bassem Mroue
Syrian commanders told security forces they were fighting terrorists and ordered them to open fire on anti-regime demonstrations even after they found unarmed protesters instead, Human Rights Watch said Saturday in a report citing defectors. Some of the defectors said they feared they could have been shot themselves if they refused to obey orders. One reported seeing a military officer shoot dead two soldiers in Daraa for that reason. (AP)
See also Syrian Protest Singer Slain for Anti-Assad Tune - Roee Nahmias
Ibrahim Kashush became the latest symbol of the ongoing Syrian uprising. Equipped with a megaphone, Kashush started singing in front of hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in Hama last Friday, in a song titled "Be Gone," in reference to Syrian President Bashar Assad. "Come on, get lost, ya Bashar," Kashush chanted, "Take your brother Maher with you and take off!" "Your legitimacy has vanished, Bashar the liar....Bashar, be gone." The song became an instant hit and one of the main anthems of the protests. Four days later Kashush's body was discovered with his throat slit. (Ynet News)
See also below Observations: Syria - Secret Journey Around a Nation in Revolt Finds Protesters Are Not Flagging (Sunday Telegraph-UK) - Video: U.S. Ambassador to Syria Greeted with Rose Petals and Olive Branches in Hama -
U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford was greeted by protesters with rose petals and olive branches when he visited the embattled city of Hama on Thursday. The Syrian government has condemned the visit. (Huffington Post)
See also Report from Hama - U.S. Amb. Robert Ford (Facebook) - Israel Recognizes South Sudan, Offers Economic Aid - Dan Williams
Israel recognized South Sudan Sunday, offering the new state economic help after it seceded from the mainly Arab Muslim north. "I announce here that Israel recognizes South Sudan," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet. "We wish it success. It is a peace-seeking country and we would be happy to cooperate with it in order to ensure its development and prosperity." (Reuters) - Canada Opposes Palestinian Bid for Recognition of Statehood - Mike Blanchfield
Canada is rejecting a Palestinian effort to win recognition at the UN as an independent state. "Our government's long-standing position has not changed. The only solution to this conflict is one negotiated between and agreed to by the two parties," said Chris Day, the spokesman for Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird. "One of the states must be a Jewish state and recognized as such, while the Palestinian state is to be a nonmilitarized one." "Unilateral action is ultimately unhelpful," said Day. (Canadian Press-Toronto Star)
- Israeli Cabinet Approves Northern Maritime Border - Herb Keinon
The government approved on Sunday the demarcation of Israel's northern maritime border with Lebanon, the Prime Minister's Office said in a statement. The line demarcates economic rights in offshore territories that - with the discovery of vast natural gas reserves - have become very lucrative. The move to delineate the line was made in order to combat Lebanese claims to offshore territories that Israel claims as its own.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Cabinet: "The [maritime] line that Lebanon presented to the UN is significantly south of the Israeli line. It contradicts the line Israel has agreed upon with Cyprus, and what is more significant to me is that it contradicts the line that Lebanon itself concluded with Cyprus in 2007. Our goal is to establish the position of Israel regarding its maritime boundary, according to international maritime law."
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told Israel Radio on Sunday that reports that the U.S. backed Lebanon on the maritime border dispute are "nonsense." (Jerusalem Post)
See also Israel: Iran, Hizbullah Behind Lebanon Protest over Israel Sea Border - Barak Ravid
Vice Prime Minister and Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya'alon told the Cabinet Sunday that Iran and Hizbullah are purposely trying to create a new source of friction with Israel concerning the maritime border with Lebanon. "When we announced our gas drilling, the Iranians and Hizbullah decided that it would be a good excuse for conflict with us," said Ya'alon. "It was done with premeditation in order to create conflict with us, just like the Shebaa Farms [Lebanon has claimed the Shebaa Farms]."
The proposed Lebanese line does not include Israel's large Tamar and Leviathan gas prospects. (Ha'aretz) - 124 Pro-Palestinian Activists Arrested at Ben-Gurion Airport - Zohar Blumenkrantz, Jack Khoury and Yaniv Kubovich
124 pro-Palestinian activists were detained after arriving at Ben-Gurion Airport as part of a staged anti-Israel protest at the weekend. About 200 more were prevented from flying to Israel by foreign airlines. A source at the Immigration and Population Authority said that Israel intends to expel the activists within 48 hours, but foreign airlines have already warned that they will not be able to move large groups of activists out of Israel quickly. "This is the peak of the holiday season and the flights are full," said one European airline representative. (Ha'aretz)
See also Israel Thanks European States for Helping Stop "Flightilla" - Yaakov Lappin
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said Saturday: "Israel thanks the European countries for their assistance and cooperation in preventing the provocative 'air flotilla' that was planned." (Jerusalem Post) - Palestinian Envoys Clash with Washington over UN State Bid - Khaled Abu Toameh
Signs of tensions between the Palestinian Authority and the U.S. surfaced over the weekend following a visit to Washington by two senior Palestinian envoys, Saeb Erekat and Nabil Abu Rudaineh. Erekat later said: "They informed us that they would use the veto if we go to the Security Council....They also told us that Congress would vote in favor of cutting off financial aid to the PA if it proceeds with its plan to go to the UN."
On Monday, the Quartet is scheduled to discuss the PA's plan for statehood and ways of reviving the peace process. (Jerusalem Post)
See also Palestinians Losing European Support? - Ronen Medzini
In a letter addressed to EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton, more than 100 European Union parliament members say they object to a unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood in September. (Ynet News)
- In Iran, Sanctions Aim at Shipping Lifeline - Thomas Erdbrink and Joby Warrick
On June 30, the Danish shipping giant Maersk startled Iran's trade officials by abruptly pulling out of the country's three largest ports. A week earlier, the Obama administration had declared the ports' operator to be an arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, a group linked to terrorism and weapons trafficking. Other shipping companies followed suit, and soon Iran was scrambling to find alternative ways to import food and other critical supplies - precisely the effect that U.S. officials were hoping for.
After two years of failed efforts to entice Iran with diplomatic carrots, the Obama administration is quietly toasting successes at using economic sticks. A series of U.S. and international sanctions imposed over the past year have slowly undermined Iran's ability to conduct trade by targeting the country's access to international banking, insurers and transportation companies. "The impact is real," said National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor, describing canceled or frozen projects in Iran's energy sector alone that total $60 billion. (Washington Post) - Saudi Columnist: Hamas Leader Khaled Mash'al Is Trading in the Palestinian Cause
In a column in Al-Watan (Saudi Arabia) on June 30, Al-Arabiya TV presenter Turki Al-Dakhil slammed Hamas Political Bureau leader Khaled Mash'al, accusing him of supporting the Syrian regime at the expense of both the Syrian people and the Palestinian cause. "Since December 2010, [reports] commenting on the Palestinian cause have become few, and even scarce. [Instead,] the coverage has focused on Syria, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, and Egypt - [everything] except for Palestine....The reason for the absence of coverage is the abyss that has formed between the Palestinian statesmen and the [rest of] the world."
"In the past decade, many Palestinian [flaws] have been exposed, for instance [the fact] that the [Palestinian] cause has become a tool for bargaining, making profits, exerting pressures, and [gaining] influence. This has turned Hamas into part of the Iranian axis at the expense of the Arabs, who struggled alongside the Palestinians, whereas Iran never fired a single bullet at any Israeli target."
"The [flaw] most recently [exposed] is that the Syrian regime is more important to Hamas than the Syrian people....[Hamas] immediately turned into the Syrians' enemy, supporting every step taken by the [Syrian] regime." (MEMRI)
- The Sunday Telegraph secretly visited Hama, Syria, during a week-long undercover journey around a nation in revolt - a journey which showed how tenuous government control has become, despite a crackdown that has claimed more than 1,400 lives since March. I witnessed a Syria of "freed" towns, vast anti-regime demonstrations, violent melees and angry gunfights.
- Within minutes of noticing a foreigner, Hama residents began to boast of the impending fall of the regime. A butcher, Omar was brimming with pride as he explained why. "Look around, the government is finished in Hama," he said. "The army came here and they killed many and they stole. But we kept coming out. No matter how many times the army comes, we'll never give in now." "This Assad family are murderers and criminals," said one resident. "Tell everyone: the people of Hama say that this regime is finished."
- It was a message that I heard repeatedly as I traveled across Syria, sometimes to places where it seemed the regime had completely abandoned any effort to keep control. In the northeastern city of Deir Resor, where six died in recent clashes, pictures of President Assad and his father, Hafez, had been destroyed and their statues removed.
- One man described how the government had lost control of the city. "The army tried to come into Deir Resor a few weeks ago, but they soon had to retreat," he said. "The government knows the northern clans are armed, they have support from Iraq, and if they are attacked they will fight. But this is the biggest town in the area and if it is anti-government it means the entire east of Syria is too."
- In the industrial port of Latakia, resident Abu Hamza described the violence: "For 10 days the army killed everyone walking the streets. I used to think that Israel was our enemy. But even the Israelis use rubber bullets, shoot at people's legs, allow ambulances to come and take people to hospital. Now I know the Syrian regime is our real enemy."
The US has suspended hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid for Pakistan amidst strained ties with the nation.
Oshkosh to Provide M-ATV to UAE
Oshkosh has been awarded a firm-fixed-price contract by the US Army Contracting Command to supply Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) All-Terrain vehicles (M-ATV) for UAE.
Russia to Sign 2012 Defence Contracts by the End of the Year
Russia will sign all contracts of its 2012 state defence order by the end of this year, Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov has said.
GD Awarded Enterprise Communications Contract by US DIA
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Debt talks at a stalemate
Both sides appeared Sunday to dig further into their positions, leaving the talks deadlocked, a historic default looming and a fragile economy increasingly vulnerable to the consequences of Washington’s entrenched partisanship and ideological divide over taxes and entitlements.
(By Scott Wilson and Lori Montgomery)
‘Big deal’ motivates, eludes president and speaker
President Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner tried and failed to reach a big deal together that would have settled the impasse over the debt ceiling.
(By Paul Kane)
Iran sanctions target shipping lifeline
U.S. and international sanctions have slowly undermined the country’s ability to conduct trade.
(By Thomas Erdbrink and Joby Warrick)
Military aid to Pakistan on pause
The Obama administration is withholding millions to signal its dissatisfaction with Pakistan’s lagging security cooperation.
(By Karen DeYoung)
Molinaro Koger caught in legal storm
Hotel brokerage firm Molinaro Koger failed to return millions in escrow deposits, several firms allege in lawsuits filed in the past 30 days against the Vienna company.
(By Danielle Douglas)
POLITICS
BSkyB shares slide on growing doubts over News Corp. bid as UK government seeks fresh advice
LONDON — Shares in British Sky Broadcasting dropped sharply Monday on growing doubts over News Corp.’s ability to take full control of the lucrative satellite broadcaster amid signs that the government is looking at ways to block the deal.
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US, Mideast mediators to discuss old, new problems in gloomy Israeli-Palestinian peace process
WASHINGTON — The United States and other Mideast mediators meet Monday in Washington, with the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in shambles and an upcoming U.N. confrontation over whether to admit Palestine as an independent country only likely to make the decades-old deadlock even more intractable.
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With steady growth in seafood imports, new federal policy aims to expand US fish farming
INDIANAPOLIS — The federal government is moving to open up large swaths of coastal waters to fish farming for the first time in an effort to decrease Americans’ dependence on imports and satisfy their growing appetite for seafood.
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Obama, congressional leaders still divided over debt deal, plan to meet again Monday
WASHINGTON — Grasping for a deal on the nation’s debt, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders remained divided Sunday over the size and the components of a plan to reduce long term deficits. Noting the need to work out an agreement over the next 10 days, the president and lawmakers agreed to meet again Monday.
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Debt talks at a stalemate
Both sides appeared Sunday to dig further into their positions, leaving the talks deadlocked, a historic default looming and a fragile economy increasingly vulnerable to the consequences of Washington’s entrenched partisanship and ideological divide over taxes and entitlements.
( by Scott Wilson and Lori Montgomery , The Washington Post)
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AGING AMERICA: Communities take creative steps to prepare for silver tsunami of baby boomers
NEW YORK — America’s cities are beginning to grapple with a fact of life: People are getting old, fast, and they’re doing it in communities designed for the sprightly.
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Ask Amy: Suspicious wife wants to hire gumshoe
She’s diagnosed her husband as a narcissist, and believes he’s having an affair. How can she find a private eye?
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Pregnant and ‘girl crazy’
She’s six months pregnant and desperately wants the child to be a girl.
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Hints From Heloise: A permanent mark?
Removing permanent marker from clothes can be tricky, but Heloise has a method to try.
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Capital Fringe Festival: ‘Please Don’t Beat Me Up’
Author Adam Ruben’s memoir that comes straight from adolescence is partially successful.
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SPORTS
Yao Ming's expected retirement put NBA popularity in China at risk
BEIJING — Yao Ming’s expected retirement could diminish the NBA’s once-burgeoning popularity in China, with many fans saying they would no longer watch games.
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Clemens not even half way to getting a jury in his trial on charges of lying about steroids
WASHINGTON — Roger Clemens is still not half way to getting a jury in his perjury trial.
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Police detain Trabzonspor president, others in Turkish match-fixing probe
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish police have detained the president of Trabzonspor and a former official of the Turkish Football Federation for questioning in a growing probe into match fixing.
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On Basketball: Though injuries shortened career, China's Yao Ming did plenty in a short time
Those beat-up legs that cut short seasons, and eventually a career, would never have sat still for China’s greatest moment.
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WORLD
UK deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg calls on Rupert Murdoch to reconsider BSkyB bid
LONDON — UK deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg calls on Rupert Murdoch to reconsider BSkyB bid.
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Zimbabwe police briefly detain 3 Cabinet ministers from party opposed to president's
HARARE, Zimbabwe — An independent Zimbabwe newspaper says three government ministers from the smallest group in Zimbabwe’s troubled coalition have been briefly detained.
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Gunpowder store explodes at Cypriot naval base, at least 10 feared dead, widespread damage
NICOSIA, Cyprus — A huge explosion — likely sparked by a brush fire that set light to containers of gunpowder — tore through a Cypriot National Guard naval base Monday, causing widespread damage and leading to extensive power cuts, the Defense Ministry said. At least 10 people were feared dead.
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Outgoing US commander says violence waning in Afghan cities, fight continues in rural areas
KABUL, Afghanistan — An outgoing American military commander in Afghanistan says violence is down in some heavily populated areas of the country where coalition troops have been concentrated, but that violence continues in rural areas.
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Murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler's family says Rebekah Brooks should resign in hacking scandal
LONDON — Murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s family says Rebekah Brooks should resign in hacking scandal.
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Muslims in America: One man against lure of terrorism
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TECHNOLOGY
UK deputy prime minister calls on Rupert Murdoch to reconsider bid for BSkyB
LONDON — Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has called on News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch to reconsider his bid for broadcaster BSkyB.
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Is Nothing Sacred? First Broadway Cam Surfaces
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Nissan works on recharging Leaf electric vehicle with solar power, mulling business
YOKOHAMA, Japan — Japanese automaker Nissan is testing a super-green way to recharge its Leaf electric vehicle using solar power, part of a broader drive to improve electricity storage systems.
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College2Startup Wants To Connect Startups To The Best Young Talent (And Vice Versa)
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UK deputy prime minister calls on Rupert Murdoch to reconsider bid for BSkyB
LONDON — Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has called on News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch to reconsider his bid for broadcaster BSkyB.
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Weak US jobs, China inflation batter world stock markets
TOKYO — World stock markets slid Monday, dragged by global economic angst after an unexpectedly weak U.S. jobs report and surging inflation in China.
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Democrats may want to raise taxes, GOP may want to protect loopholes, but they won't say it
WASHINGTON — Call it eliminating an unfair break, or removing an unjust loophole, or even “taking a balanced approach.” Just don’t call it raising taxes.
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Cambodian stock exchange opens but no companies listed yet for trading
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia officially launched its long-delayed stock exchange Monday although no companies are yet listed for trading.
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US Suspends $800 Million in Military Aid to Pakistan
A top White House official says the United States is suspending some $800 million in military aid to Pakistan, a move some analysts say is being made to pressure the Pakistani military to step up cooperation. The decision comes as ties between the two countries are under intense strain in the wake of the U.S. raid on a compound in Pakistan that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. ...
A top White House official says the United States is suspending some $800 million in military aid to Pakistan, a move some analysts say is being made to pressure the Pakistani military to step up cooperation. The decision comes as ties between the two countries are under intense strain in the wake of the U.S. raid on a compound in Pakistan that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. ...
Pakistan army rejects US paper allegations
Pakistan's chief military spokesman Saturday rejected allegations by the New York Times against the chief of the country's premier intelligence agency, the ISI and described them as baseless and mischievous. ...
Pakistan's chief military spokesman Saturday rejected allegations by the New York Times against the chief of the country's premier intelligence agency, the ISI and described them as baseless and mischievous. ...
Panetta Vows to Continue Fighting Taliban, al-Qaida
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta told Marines, sailors, soldiers and airmen based here today that the 'most important thing to do now is to continue this fight' against the Taliban and al-Qaida. ...
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta told Marines, sailors, soldiers and airmen based here today that the 'most important thing to do now is to continue this fight' against the Taliban and al-Qaida. ...
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Marines Discuss Counterinsurgency Successes in Helmand
Progress is undeniable in Helmand province where three districts that were once the heartland of the Taliban saw an 80 percent reduction in enemy activity since August 2010, Marine commanders said. ...
Progress is undeniable in Helmand province where three districts that were once the heartland of the Taliban saw an 80 percent reduction in enemy activity since August 2010, Marine commanders said. ...
Mullen Lauds Progress in U.S.-China Partnership
The top U.S. military officer called upcoming military engagements between the United States and China an encouraging sign that the two countries are beginning to build a relationship that advances both their interests and their ability to confront common challenges. ...
The top U.S. military officer called upcoming military engagements between the United States and China an encouraging sign that the two countries are beginning to build a relationship that advances both their interests and their ability to confront common challenges. ...
Syrian VP Calls for Democratic Transition as Opposition Boycotts Talks
Syria's vice president has opened a national dialogue on political reforms with a call for a transition to democracy in response to months of opposition protests against the autocratic rule of President Bashar al-Assad. ...
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Palestine’s ‘last village’ faces the bulldozers
Lifta to make way for Jewish vacation homes
By Jonathan Cook
URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25551
Global Research, July 8, 2011
On
a rocky slope dropping steeply away from the busy main road at the
entrance to West Jerusalem is to be found a scattering of ancient stone
houses, empty and clinging precariously to terraces hewn from the
hillside centuries ago.
Although
most Israeli drivers barely notice the buildings, this small ghost town
-- neglected for the past six decades -- is at the centre of a legal
battle fuelling nationalist sentiments on both sides of the
Israeli-Palestinian divide.
Picking
his way through the cluster of 55 surviving houses, their stone walls
invaded by weeds and shrubs, Yacoub Odeh, 71, slipped easily into
reminiscences about the halcyon days in Lifta.
He
was only eight years old in January 1948 when the advancing Jewish
forces put his family and the 3,000 other Palestinian villagers to
flight.
Over
the coming months, as the Jewish state was born, they would be joined
by 750,000 others forced into exile in an event that is known by
Palestinians as the “nakba”, or catastrophe.
Despite
the passage of time, Lifta’s chief landmarks are still clear to Mr
Odeh: the remains of his own family’s home, an olive press, the village
oven, a spring, the mosque, the cemetery and the courtyard where the
villagers once congregated.
“Life
was wonderful for a small child here,” he said, closing his eyes. “We
were like one large family. We played in the spring’s waters, we picked
the delicious strawberries growing next to the pool.
“I can still remember the taste of the bread freshly baked by my mother and coated with olive oil and thyme.”
The
village not only occupies a unique place in Mr Odeh’s affections. It
has also come to symbolise a hope of eventual return for many of the
nearly five million Palestinian refugees around the world.
In
the words of Ghada Karmi, a British academic whose own family was
forced from their home close by, in the Jerusalem suburb of Katamon,
Lifta “remains a physical memorial of injustice and survival”.
The reason is that Lifta is the last deserted village from 1948 still standing in modern-day Israel.
More
than 400 other villages seized by Israel war were razed during and
after the war of 1948 in what historians have described as a systematic
plan to make sure the refugees had no homes to return to.
Ilan
Pappe, an Israeli historian who examined the 1948 war in his book the
Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, has termed the villages’ destruction an
act of “memoricide” -- erasing for Israelis all troubling reminders of
an earlier Palestinian presence.
The
destroyed villages’ lands were used by the new state either to build
communities for Jewish immigrants or to plant national forests, said
Eitan Bronstein, spokesman for Zochrot, an Israeli group dedicated to
teaching Israelis about the nakba.
A
handful of other Palestinian communities, such as the old city of Jaffa
and Ein Hod near Haifa, survived the wave of demolitions but were
quickly passed on to new Jewish owners to be reinvented as artists’
colonies.
Only
Lifta was neither destroyed nor reinhabited, its homes standing as a
solitary, silent testament to a vanished way of life, said Mr Bronstein.
But even that small legacy is under imminent threat from the bulldozers.
In
January the Israel Lands Authority, a government body responsible for
Lifta’s lands, announced a plan to build a luxury housing project over
the village, including more than 200 apartments, a hotel and shops.
The
project, said Meir Margalit, a Jerusalem city councillor, would be
targeted at wealthy foreign Jews, mainly from the United States and
France, looking for summer vacation homes in Israel.
The
developers have promised to incorporate some of the old buildings into
the complex, although most observers -- including leading architects --
say that little of the orginal Palestinian village will be recognisable
after the project is completed.
Instead,
according to Mr Bronstein, Lifta will belatedly suffer the same fate as
the hundreds of villages destroyed by Israel decades ago. “The message
is that we are finishing what we started in 1948,” he said.
Esther
Zandberg, a commentator on architecture for the Israeli Haaretz daily,
agreed: “Although it is termed a preservation effort, it is in effect,
paradoxically, an erasure of all memory of the original village.”
Critics
have been joined by Shmuel Groag, one of the project’s original
architects, who has accused the developers of failing to respect the
basic rules of conservation in their treatment of Lifta.
Lifta’s
families, backed by several Israeli groups, including Rabbis for Human
Rights, petitioned the courts to stop the project, saying the site
should be preserved in its existing state.
The Jerusalem district court temporarily froze the development in March, and is expected to issue a ruling in the coming days.
The
families have also appealed to Unesco, the United Nations organisation
in charge of educational, scientific and cultural matters, to declare
Lifta a world heritage site.
The
development, however, is backed by the leading conservation bodies in
Israel, including the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel and
the Council for the Preservation of Historic Sites. The council’s
director, Isaac Shewky, said the costs of a proper restoration would be
“astronomical”.
Unlike
most of the other 20,000 refugees and their descendants from Lifta,
many of whom live in the West Bank and Jordan, Mr Odeh is able to visit
his former village because he lives a few kilometres away in East
Jerusalem.
He
said he would ultimately like to see the families offered a chance to
reclaim their former homes. “We will never forget Lifta. Our dream is to
come back.”
Few
observers expect such a scenario in the current political climate. The
Palestinian right of return is widely seen by Israeli Jews as spelling
doom for Israel’s continued existence as a Jewish state.
That
fear was only accentuated by the images of refugees in Syria storming
border fences in the Golan Heights in May and June, in what was widely
seen in Israel as an attempted return to their former homes.
Mr
Bronstein said: “Lifta poses such a threat to Israelis because it
offers a starting point for imagining how the right of return might be
implemented. It offers a model for the refugees.”
Mr
Odeh, who offers guided tours of Lifta, has to share the site with many
Israeli visitors. Young religious boys have turned the
still-functioning village pool into a mikveh, or ritual immersion bath.
Other Israelis use the site as a favourite hiking spot. And in the
evenings, drug-users take shelter in the homes.
Lifta
is also facing rapid encroachment from West Jerusalem. It is ringed by
major roads linking Jerusalem to the West Bank settlements; on the ridge
above, a high-speed rail link to Tel Aviv is being built; and in the
valley below a military complex is believed to house the government’s
underground nuclear bunker.
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