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Several Palestinian journalists in Jerusalem boycotted a press conference held by U.S. Secretary of state, Hilary Clinton, in Jerusalem after Israeli security officers ordered them to undergo a strip search before they enter the conference room at the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem.
The reporters stated that they conducted all needed prior arrangements and obtained all needed permits to enter the press conference, but the Israeli Internal Security refused to allow them into the hotel (…)

Former Israeli ambassador to South Africa Alon Liel argues that a boycott would put pressure on people and businesses, possibly persuading some to relocate inside Israel proper.
Alon Liel is a former Israeli ambassador to South Africa and former director general of the Israeli foreign ministry. But when his former office harshly criticized South Africa for enabling a consumer boycott of exports from West Bank settlements in May, Mr. Liel’s response sharply diverged from the party line. (…)

Five Olympia Food Co-op members who had sued to overturn the store’s boycott of Israeli goods must pay $160,000 in damages, the result of a judge’s prior ruling that the lawsuit was an illegal Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation.
SLAPPs are defined as nuisance lawsuits designed to stifle free speech and create onerous legal costs for those who choose to exercise their free-speech rights. SLAPPs are illegal under a state law that the defendants’ attorney, Bruce Johnson, and (…)

“The Crisis of Zionism” by Peter Beinart (Melbourne University Press, 2012) describes how the formerly liberal, anti-racist Jewish American tradition has been subverted by the now-dominant, intransigent, right wing, Israeli and American Zionist extremists who variously insist on Palestinian expulsion from about 90 to 100% of the land of Palestine and deprivation of other Palestinian human rights in order to preserve a “Jewish state”.
Self-proclaimed "liberal Zionist" Beinart sees this (…)

Arafat’s Revenge? Israeli Men are Sterile
VeteransToday News Flash – July 11, 2012 – Israeli hospital sperm banks are considering not accepting any sperm donations from Israeli men because the quality is so uniformly poor.
More in vitro pregnancies result from foreign sperm today than Israeli sperm.
This is a result of twenty years of nuclear war and uranium weapons use in western Asia (aka: the Middle East,) and Central Asia.
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(San Francisco) Yasser Arafat died Nov (…)

World markets appear to be hovering over a precipice as Europe’s sovereign debt crisis, slowdowns in India and China and further bank downgrades threaten to send stocks and commodities down even further. Falling oil and gas prices may offer some respite to consumers but are they enough to help the economy or are they a symptom of deeper problems?
To help Oilprice.com look at these issues and more we are joined by the well known investor, adventurer and author Jim Rogers. Jim is the creator (…)

AUSTRALIA
South Australia. Police including anti terror unit now blocking off roads, despite agreeing to rights for huge protest rally at Olympic Dam uranium mine. People travelling from far and wide. Renowned film-maker David Bradbury will document events. Dr Helen Caldicott to give public speech at Roxby Downs
Govt approved The 315 megawatt Hornsdale wind farm, to be built 15km from Jamestown – largest wind farm in the State. Dr Helen Caldicott back in Australia, to speak in (…)

Protest: Stop the Bliar Comeback Monday 9th July, 5.30pm - 7.30pm Lambeth, south London (exact location TBC)
The attempt to rehabilitate Tony Blair’s public image continues unabated.
After editing the Evening Standard and appearing on the Andrew Marr show,
Blair
is now set to speak at a fundraising event for Tessa Jowell MP in Lambeth on
Monday 9th July. The media may have forgotten about the lies Blair told the
world but the public has not.
You can help give Blair the welcome that (…)

AUSTRALIA
Muckaty nuclear waste dump plan to meet increasing opposition, as Australian groups, especially unions, support traditional owners’ legal action against the plan. Meanwhile Tony Abbott is happy about the plan – saying that “local concerns have to give way to the national interest”
Aborigines. To a deafening silence from the Australian mainstream media, Senate – Labor and Liberal unite in passing new Northern Territory Intervention, judged discriminatory by Aboriginal groups, (…)

Palestinian protesters said security forces used brutal force Sunday during the second demonstration in as many days protesting Palestinian Authority policy.
Police attacked protesters with batons, beating and injuring at least seven people. Another seven protesters were taken to a police station along with at least two journalists, a Ma’an correspondent said.
Protesters shouted against police brutality, and the police responded by beating them. Journalists were also attacked for the (…)