Rare TV satire mocks Palestinian politicians

Palestine TV was once the boring channel that viewers skipped over while searching for entertainment. But this time, the state-run station has picked a winner — an irreverent comedy show that mocks and often bites the hand that feeds it: the government.

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U.S.-trained Palestinian force is keen for action

In the live-fire exercise, everything was carefully choreographed — Palestinian commandos, faces blackened, stormed a hide-out in an abandoned building, "wounded" one gunman and "arrested" a second.

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Palestine to play first match in home stadium

Palestine is set to play its first international soccer match on home soil.

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Hamas captures Fatah security HQ in Gaza

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hamas gunmen captured the headquarters of the Fatah-allied security forces in northern Gaza, seizing control of a key prize in the bloody power struggle between the sides, Hamas and Fatah officials said.

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Palestinian Film Poses Oscar Quandary

Before "Paradise Now" received its best foreign-language film nomination Tuesday, Academy Award executives debated a movie credit with rare geopolitical dimensions.

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Israel dismally fails the requirements of a tolerant pluralistic society, according to a new report from the U.S. State Department.

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18 countries voted against UN Resolution on Goldstone Report

114 countries voted for the UN General Assembly Resolution on the Richard Goldstone Report on Gaza, 18 voted against, 44 abstained, and 16 were absent.

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Australia has voted against the endorsement by the UN General Assembly of the Goldstone Report on Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Jewish South African Richard Goldstone is an eminent human rights lawyer and judge.

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HC re Gaza: "The question is not whether the Israelis want to exterminate the Palestinians. They're doing it openly ...What was it if not genocide? ... The Israelis were looking for an excuse to exterminate the Palestinians."

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The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, warned Thursday that he would not seek re-election in the January elections he called, the latest sign that the Obama administration's drive to broker Middle East peace talks has fallen into disarray.

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The UN General Assembly approved on Thursday an Arab-backed resolution endorsing the Goldstone Report. 114 nations voted in favor of the resolution and 18 voted against it, with 44 members abstaining.

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Israel's harshest critics claim to champion the rights of Palestinians. So we're curious about the fallout, or lack thereof, from revelations that the Palestinian Authority regularly brutalizes its own in the West Bank while enjoying a steady flow of dollars and euros.

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"US President Barack Obama is Israel's "closest friend," contrary to what many Israelis seem to believe in recent polls, US Ambassador James Cunningham told a Tel Aviv audience on Wednesday.

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Palestinians may have to abandon the goal of an independent state if Israel continues to expand Jewish settlements and the United States does not stop it, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Wednesday.

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Every opportunity for peace in the Middle East has been led to slaughter, and at this isolated desert crossing, on June 25, 2006, another moment of promise culminated in bloodshed.

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The U.S. House of Representatives condemned a UN report Tuesday that accuses Israeli forces and Palestinian militants of committing war crimes in Gaza early this year as irredeemably biased and unworthy of further consideration or legitimacy.

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A feisty Robert Fisk takes on the "White House-State Department-Pentagon-CNN-Downing Street-Defence Ministry-BBC military-political-journalistic complex..."

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Rioting settlers forced a Palestinian family from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah out of their home on Tuesday.....dozens of settlers stormed into the house with hired security guards, and demanded that the family vacate immediately.

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In the first incident, documented on 15 October by a volunteer in B'Tselem's camera distribution project, settlers are seen stealing olives from a grove belonging to a resident of al-Mughair village in Ramallah District, near which the Adey Ad illegal outpost has been established.

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"Experience - and statistics - show that Israeli law enforcement is remarkably lax when it comes to tackling violence against Palestinians. Twelve years ago, Teitel confessed to killing two Arabs and then took a break from such activity.

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Israel arrested an alleged Jewish settler terrorist after a 12 year crime spree against Palestinians and fellow Jews.

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"Censored NY Times Cartoon," the true story behind how the New York Times reneged on running a cartoon critical of Israel, was scheduled to appear in the special November 2 cartoon edition of the New Yorker.

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Now is the time to say to the United States: Enough flattery. If you don't change the tone, nothing will change.

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In this interview with Newsweek Ahmadinejad clearly does not dispute the Jewish Holocaust as part of the 60 million people killed in WW2 but says "Why is the Holocaust used as pretext to occupy the lands of other people?"

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The US House of Representatives is expected to vote Tuesday on a resolution calling on President Barack Obama to reject the UN's Goldstone report, which accuses Israel and Palestinian militants of war crimes in Gaza.

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JERUSALEM — Dealing a blow to the Obama administration's efforts to restart Middle East peace talks, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton failed Saturday to persuade the Palestinian leader to accept an Israeli proposal that would slow but not stop the construction of Jew …

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Spinwatch has uncovered evidence that an apparently London based organisation offering expertise on Iran to journalists and politicians is a covert propaganda operation run by a pro-Israel organisation in the United States.

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Wednesday night, Jon Stewart hosted two Israel/Palestine peace activists. The reaction from the pro-Israel crowd has been BRUTAL and it's important we show our support and appreciation for the honest discussion of the issues.

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West Bank farmer Mahmoud al-'Alam won't forget the day Israeli army bulldozers cut off his water supply... and destroyed his livelihood

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