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Netherlands embraces Israel tighter, squeezing out human rights

Adri Nieuwhof
22 June 2011
Why is The Netherlands deepening its economic and political ties with Israel just when Israel is escalating its attacks on Palestinian rights and flouting international law with impunity? Adri Nieuwhof comments on the Dutch government’s lurch away from a commitment to human rights.

Report on The Electronic Intifada boosted campaign to nix AUB speech by Wolfensohn

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 20:27

The Daily Star in Beirut reports on 12 June:

James Wolfensohn, former World Bank president, has pulled out of the commencement due to honor him at the American University of Beirut following a petition from students and faculty members over his links to an Israeli think tank and businesses.

Disappearing Palestine and "typically Israeli" landscapes

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 01:42

The last paragraph of an article published by Haaretz today on the disappearance of wildlife in Israel reads: “Only 298 winter rain pools remain in the entire country, and other typically Israeli landscapes are also disappearing.”

“Typically Israeli” landscapes?

Quartet ex-envoy's investment helps Israel greenwash settlements

Ali Abunimah
6 May 2010

Former World Bank president and Middle East Quartet envoy James D. Wolfensohn is an investor in an Israeli company that is developing transport infrastructure for Jewish-only settlements built in the occupied West Bank in violation of international law, an investigation by The Electronic Intifada reveals.

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