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`Welcome to Palestine` Campaign Responds to Israe;`s Denial of Entrance

The "Welcome to Palestine" campaign has been successful in exposing Israeli attempts to isolate and imprison Palestinians and prevent international visitors from coming to find out what is really happening on the ground.

(BETHLEHEM / JERUSALEM) - Israel is escalating attacks on anyone they suspect of participating in the peaceful events of the ‘Welcome to Palestine’ campaign.

Israeli authorities sent hundreds of names to airline companies directing them to deny travel to individuals on the list.

`Air Flotilla` successful in exposing Israeli blockade of West Bank

Israeli authorities deployed hundreds of police officers to arrest and deport pro-Palestinian visitors. The Minister of Tourism announced that “good tourists” will be greeted with flowers

(TEL AVIV +972) - Panic. There is no other way to describe the Israeli reaction to a plan organized by a few activists—no more than a thousand, according to the most generous estimates—to try and travel to the West Bank via Ben Gurion International Airport.

A handful of those visitors arrived (five of them have already been deported), and it seems that the whole country has gone mad.

Press Conferencee: Freedom Flotilla II, Boat to Gaza in Greece

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(ATHENS) - This is a live press conference from Athens regarding the holdup and blockage of the boats bound for Gaza as part of Freedom Flotilla II.

Organizers are discussing the French ship which is in an undisclosed location, and a second French ship now part of the Flotilla. There is a substantial update on the U.S. Boat 'Audacity of Hope' and the Canadian boat.

Plastic isn`t Fantastic When Used as Invisible Shrapnel

You wouldn't believe what is killing and maiming people in Palestine.

(SALEM, Ore.) - This article is about war-related issues in Palestine that are missing the radar in western newsrooms.

I am referring to the use of plastic in rockets that leave behind undetectable shrapnel in humans, munitions that amputate by heat, and the massive killings of Palestinian farm animals and wildlife through the use of Israeli-manufactured tablets deposited on Palestinian land.

Report of Smoke in Building Leads to Discovery of Deceased Woman

Fire personnel and Sr. Deputy Jason Hickam located an adult female inside the residence.

(SALEM, Ore.) - A Salem woman's body was discovered in a home today just after 5:30 p.m. when Marion County Fire District #1 officials and local deputies responded to a report of smoke in a residence in the 3500 block of Silverstone Drive NE.

The home had no visible damage, and there is little information at this point. Marion County Sheriff's Office spokesman Don Thomson, says the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.

Marine Helicopter Crash Kills One at Camp Pendleton

The Marines injured in the crash were transported to Scripps La Jolla Medical Center and Mission Hospital.

(CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.) - One Marine is apparently dead and several others were injured around noon today in a helicopter crash at Camp Pendleton.

The training flight originated from the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. The aircraft is reported to be a modern version of the Vietnam era UH-1 'Huey'. This version, the UH-1Y, is referred to as a 'Yankee Huey'.

Ken O`Keefe speaks at Made In Palestine event in Scotland

Hip Hop concerts across the UK raise funding & awareness for Convoy to Gaza

(SALEM / GLASGOW) - "If it wasn't for Ken O'Keefe none of this would be happening," Scottish Hip Hop Artist Eastborn said to the audience in Glasgow. Ken O'Keefe is the head of the Samouni Project Convoy to Gaza, which Eastborn has joined.

Do You Know Where your Country is?

Jefferson said: “Information is the currency of Democracy”.

(JAMESTOWN, R.I.) - Now that the July 4th hoopla has quieted, two questions should be asked of the US public.

First: Who was the winner of the most recent America’s Got Talent show? Second: How many countries is the US currently bombing?

Could Obama`s Word Avert the Looming Civil War and Genocide in Rwanda?

"I call upon you and your government, to support the RPP’s proposal for peace talks that is aimed to avert a new wave of civil war and genocide in Rwanda" - John V Karuranga, President Rwanda People’s Party

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - On Monday, July 4, 2011 Rwanda celebrated its Independence/Liberation day which is the date to the end of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda.

In a public speech given to the nation on this day of celebration, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda stated that “the country has been liberated.”

Palestinian people power - could it be a game-changer?

So if the Palestinians have nothing to gain from politics and diplomacy and don’t have a terror option, what can they do?

(LONDON) - Because Israel’s leaders prefer land to peace and there’s nothing any American president can do about that so long as the Zionist lobby and its stooges in Congress call the shots on U.S. policy for Israel/Palestine, it’s obvious that the Palestinians have nothing to gain, only more to lose, from politics and diplomacy.

So what, really, can they do themselves to press their claim for an acceptable minimum amount of justice?