By Max Blumenthal

AL-ARAKIB, ISRAEL — On July 26, Israeli police demolished 45 buildings in the unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Arakib, razing the entire village to the ground to make way for a Jewish National Fund forest. The destruction was part of a larger project to force the Bedouin community of the Negev away from their ancestral lands and into seven Indian reservation-style communities the Israeli government has constructed for them. The land will then be open for Jewish settlers, including young couples in the army and those who may someday be evacuated from the West Bank after a peace treaty is signed. For now, the Israeli government intends to uproot as many villages as possible and erase them from the map by establishing “facts on the ground” in the form of JNF forests. (See video of of al-Arakib’s demolition here).

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Rachelle Ferrell – “I can explain” live au théâtre antique de Vienne le 12 juillet 2001.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Gaza’s top Tawjihi student felt like she broke the siege against her with determination and the light from her mobile phone, she told Ma’an the day she received the news of her success.

Asma Amin Tubasi from Rafah remembers her father telling her to stop studying using the old oil lamp after a series of accidents in the Gaza Strip saw children injured and homes burned due to unsafe fuel smuggled in from Egypt.

“She would study 18 hours a day, and she has made me so proud today, scoring 99.4 on the literary stream of the Tawjihi, the highest score in all of Gaza,” her father said.

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The Real News:

War as we have never been allowed to see it before: more than 90,000 secret files reveal alleged “execution squads” and an apparent plot to kill the Afghan president. Wikileaks editor Julian Assange speaks to Channel 4 News about the biggest military leak in history.

Channel 4 News has seen the classified documents but has been unable to independently verify their authenticity.

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