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<strong><a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/a-million-stories-about-zionism-violence-in-pictures/" target="_blank">A Million Stories about the Zionist Rape of This World</a> – in pictures</strong></p>
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<p>PNN &#8211; Palestine News Network 13.11.11 &#8211; 19:47</p>
<p><strong>PNN &#8211; As the Israeli prepared to blast a mountainside near the southern West Bank village of al-Walajeh to clear room for the wall, a group of Palestinian and international activists stood on the land to stop it. In their removal from the land, one activist was injured and another arrested. </strong></p>
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<div class="mosimage_caption" style="text-align:center;" align="center">Palestinian and international solidarity activists march in al-Walajeh during a September demonstration against the wall (Brendan Work, PNN).</div>
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<p>One of the arrested activists was Dr. Mazen Qumsiyeh, a former Yale professor and author of &#8220;Popular Resistance in Palestine.&#8221; Others, including al-Walajeh community organizer Shireen al-Araj, were pepper sprayed by Israeli troops.</p>
<p>ActiveStills photographer Anne Paq told PNN that the demolitions would likely continue within the hour. It was later reported that more residents of al-Walajeh had sat down on the planned route of the wall as human shields against the demolition.</p>
<p>Last Thursday, Israeli construction crews conducted another blasting operation in al-Walajeh, a village next to Bethlehem of just under 2,000 residents. The route of the Israeli wall will completely cut al-Walajeh off from neighboring villages and the rest of the West Bank once it is completed.</p>
<p>An Israeli spokeswoman told Palestinian news source Ma&#8217;an last Thursday, &#8220;It was routine construction for the fence.&#8221;</p>
<p>Israel prefers to call the wall, which is 22 feet high in Bethlehem, a &#8220;security fence.&#8221; About 80% of will be built inside the West Bank, however, and Palestinians deem it an illegal land grab. Settlements such as Har Gilo, which stands behind the wall next to al-Walajeh, are expected to benefit from the land acquisitions.</p>
<p>The names, nationalities, and ages of the injured and arrested protesters are not known, but al-Walajeh has held weekly events against the wall and settlements for the past six years.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=10854&amp;Itemid=56">Source and more at the PNN &#8211; Palestine News Network</a></strong></p>
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<ul>
<li>Israel is NOT looking for Peace but for this: <a href="http://bit.ly/eXIG72%20" target="_blank">“Greater Israel” Published by Radical Settler Movement </a></li>
<li>On Aug 30,2010 Before previous peacetalks Netanyahu V<a href="http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/08/30/118062.html" target="_blank">OWED NO CONCESSIONS</a>: &#8220;Eretz Israel&#8221; stretches from the med 2 river jordan INCL West Bank &amp; Gaza</li>
<li>With his OP-ED in #NYT anny Danon confirmed Netanyahu as well: &#8220;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/opinion/19Danon.html" target="_blank">Making the Land of Israel Whole</a>&#8220;</li>
<li>Recently: Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said: &#8220;<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4116118,00.html" target="_blank">The land of Israel is ours in its entirety</a>&#8220;</li>
<li>Knesset to vote on <a href="http://t.co/76rPyIlr" target="_blank">full Israeli annexation of the West Bank</a></li>
<li>Read what Israel thinks about US: <a href="http://t.co/MyDwM9F" target="_blank">Netanyahu: &#8216;America is a thing you can move very easily</a></li>
<li>Netanyahu:<a href="http://t.co/TQz5bM00" target="_blank"> &#8216;We won&#8217;t renew settlement freeze to lure PA to talks&#8217;</a></li>
<li>Israel plans 1000&#8217;s more settlement units as legislators call for <a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/israel-plans-1100-more-settlement-units-as-legislators-call-for-full-annexation/" target="_blank"><strong>FULL ANNEXATION of the WEST BANK</strong></a></li>
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<li>Read, what <a href="http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Famous-Zionist-Quotes/Story637.html" target="_blank">Leaders of Zionism</a> spoke about the Endlösung for Palestine</li>
<li>Israel&#8217;s Endlösung is going on for 63 years. List of <a href="http://t.co/FyEtxfD%20" target="_blank">All massacres</a></li>
<li>The massacre which is NOT covered by your local media: <a href="http://wp.me/P16sn9-2U5" target="_blank">2011</a></li>
<li>What is being ignored: <a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-b1M" target="_blank">Gaza Under Attack</a> &#8211; in pictures</li>
<li>Save yourself time, Forget all details. It is only about this :<a href="http://bit.ly/hGaKwP%20" target="_blank"> Ethnic Cleansing</a></li>
<li>MK Danon intros bill to annex West Bank:<a href="http://bit.ly/sZ57SF" target="_blank"> &#8220;The tree that Abbas climbed up cld produce the fruit of the Zionist endeavor&#8221;/a&gt;</a></li>
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<li>Likud MK: <a href="http://972mag.com/likud-mk-%e2%80%9cdelete%e2%80%9d-one-gaza-neighborhood-for-each-rocket-fired-from-the-strip/27411/" target="_blank">“Delete” Gaza neighborhood for each rocket fired</a> &#8211;  Nov 10, 2011</li>
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<strong>Israel&#8217;s Jerusalem municipality plans to build more than 50,000 new homes in the city&#8217;s occupied eastern sector over two decades:</strong></p>
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<li>23,628 homes have already been approved, 20,263 in East Jerusalem and 3,365 in the west.</li>
<li>13,824 are pending review, 12,819 in East Jerusalem and 1,005 in the west.</li>
<li>23,266 housing units are still in planning stages, 19,281 in the east and 3,985 in the west.</li>
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<strong>Of these, the municipality plans:</strong></p>
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<li>10,366 homes in northern East Jerusalem, including illegal Israeli settlement Pisgat Zeev and Palestinian town Beit Hanina.</li>
<li>5,239 homes in southern East Jerusalem, including Gilo settlement and Palestinian district Beit Safafa.</li>
<li>4,886 new units in central eastern Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan and Jerusalem’s Old City.</li>
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<p><strong>Read <a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/report-israel-plans-50000-homes-in-east-jerusalem/" target="_blank">More</a></strong></p>
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<strong>Besides this, Israel approved plans to ethnic cleanse 57.000 bedouin from Palestine</strong></p>
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<li><a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/btselem-civil-administration-plans-to-expel-tens-of-thousands-of-bedouins-from-area-c-videos/" target="_blank">Report B&#8217;Tselem</a></li>
<li><a href="http://t.co/D9hqRBk" target="_blank">The Unrecognized</a> &#8211; video</li>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';">Save yourself time. It is only about this : <a href="http://bit.ly/hGaKwP" target="_blank">Ethnic Cleansing</a></span></strong></p>
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