NAZARETH, (PIC)— Israel’s TV channel ten on Wednesday evening revealed that premier Benjamin Netanyahu had concealed the announcement of tenders for the construction of new 426 settlement units in occupied Jerusalem from US vice president Joe Biden during his last visit.

It said that before Biden left for Jordan, Netanyahu endorsed two tenders for these units, including 309 housing units in the settlement of Neve Yaakov in Jerusalem, adding that the deadline for submitting the bids was last Wednesday, the day Biden ended his visit.

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“Concealed the announcement” would be comical if true unlike the ironically bitter notion that Israelis impose any deadlines whatsoever on land grabs.

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Cindy Corrie reads the words or her activist daughter Rachel on July 2, 2005 in Chicago, Illinois. Part of a reading from Voices of a People’s History of the United States (Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove.)

Next Court Date: Wednesday March 17th, 9AM-1:30PM | Trial Updates

Rachel Corrie Foundation

14 March 2010

For Immediate Release:

Today 14 March 2010 the Haifa District Court saw the second full day of testimony in the civil lawsuit filed by Rachel Corrie’s family against the State of Israel for her unlawful killing in Rafah, Gaza. Rachel Corrie, an American human rights defender from Olympia, Washington, was crushed to death on March 16, 2003 by a Caterpillar D9R bulldozer. She had been nonviolently demonstrating against Palestinian home demolitions with fellow members of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct action methods and principles.

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Fakroon Media | 6 July 2008

Poet and Author, Suheir Hammad came to many’s attention with her performance on Russel Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam program and subsequent tour. Her poems are published in several anthologies as well as her own books, BORN PALESTINIAN, BORN BLACK and her latest, ZATAR DIVA. On November 4, 2007, the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice, Students Educating Students About the Middle East (SESAME, of the Evergreen State College), and Building Revolution by Increasing Community Knowledge (BRICK, of South Puget Sound Community College) sponsored a fund raising speaking engagement for Dahr Jamail and poet Suheir Hammad at the Capitol Theatre in downtown Olympia

11 March 2010
johnpilger.com

Adelaide is Australia’s festival city. Its arts festival is currently in swing. Polite debate, aesthetics and high-octane wine are putting the world to rights. With one exception. Adelaide is where Rupert Murdoch began his empire. The voracious trail starts here. No statue stands; his is a spectral presence, controlling the only daily newspaper, even the printing presses. Across Australia, he owns almost 70 per cent of the capital city press and the only national newspaper, and Sky Television, and much else. Welcome to the world’s first murdochracy.

What is a murdochracy? It is where the fealty and augmentation of Murdoch’s editors and managers are undisguised, an inspiration to his choir on seven continents, where even his competitors sing along and wise politicians heed the Murdochism: “What’ll it be? A headline a day or a bucket of shit a day?”

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