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❶ Israeli soldiers ordered to “map entire Palestinian civilian population”
❷ Israel’s MoD knows who is behind deadly West Bank arson attack
❸ Israeli settlers set fire to olive trees after West Bank shooting
❹ (Opinion/Analysis) Palestine: The End or a New Beginning?
❺ (Opinion/Analysis) The idiot’s guide to whitewashing the occupation
❻ Poem by Rashid Hussein

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❶ THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA
ISRAELI  SOLDIERS  ORDERED  TO  “MAP  ENTIRE  PALESTINIAN  CIVILIAN  POPULATION”
Maureen Clare Murphy
Sept. 10, 2015
Israel’s “mapping procedure” reveals the profound control that it exerts on Palestinians living under its military rule.
____The mapping procedure unfolds much like Israel’s routine nighttime arrest raids in the occupied West Bank.
____Armed soldiers surround a Palestinian family’s home in the dead of the night. A squad bangs on the front door, waking everyone up. Once inside, the soldiers gather the residents into a single room.
____The family’s ID cards are inspected and recorded, as is how everyone is related, and their phone numbers.
____One of the family members may be taken by the soldiers as they go from room to room, and ordered to open closet doors, or lift up mattresses.
____But unlike during an arrest raid, once the soldiers have gone through the home, they leave and move on to the next one, telling the family that they can go back to sleep.
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❷ MA’AN NEWS AGENCY
ISRAEL’S  MoD  KNOWS  WHO  IS  BEHIND  DEADLY  WEST  BANK  ARSON  ATTACK
Sept. 10, 2015
BETHLEHEM, (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities know who is responsible for the arson attack in the northern West Bank village of Duma, which resulted in the death of three out of four family members caught in the blaze, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Thursday.
____Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon told a closed meeting of 20 Likud activists on Wednesday that Israel’s defense establishment has chosen to “prevent legal recourse in order to protect the identity of their sources,” Haaretz reported. [. . . .]
____According to UN figures, Israeli settlers have carried out at least 142 attacks on Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank since the start of this year.
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❸ MA’AN NEWS AGENCY
ISRAELI SETTLERS SET FIRE TO OLIVE TREES AFTER WEST BANK SHOOTING
Sept. 9, 2015
NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers on Wednesday set fire to olive trees in the village of Burin south of Nablus, after an Israeli settler was lightly injured in a shooting earlier Wednesday morning, Palestinian sources told Ma’an.
____Sources said that Israelis from the illegal settlement of Yizhar had set dozens of olive trees west of Burin on fire, in full sight of Israeli soldiers who reportedly did nothing to stop them.
____A large number of olive trees were burnt before the Palestinian Civil Defense was able to reach the scene and put out the fire.
____Earlier Wednesday, a female Israeli settler was lightly injured when she was shot at while driving near Yizhar settlement.
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❹ Opinion/Analysis
THE PALESTINE CHRONICLE
PALESTINE:  THE  END  OR  A  NEW  BEGINNING?
Alan Hart
Sept. 7 2015
There is a strong case for saying that Palestine is a lost cause. And it, the case, can be summarised as follows.
____The nuclear-armed Zionist (not Jewish) state of Israel is the regional superpower and not remotely interested in peace on terms the Palestinians could accept. The vast majority of its Jews have been brainwashed by Zionist propaganda. . . .
[There follow three more arguments]
____The idea for this article was triggered by an analysis written for Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network, by Palestinian professor Tariq Dana. The title of his policy briefing paper was Corruption in Palestine: A Self-Enforcing System. Dana is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hebron University.
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❺ Opinion/Analysis
+972 MAGAZINE
THE  IDIOT’S  GUIDE  TO  WHITEWASHING  THE  OCCUPATION
Natasha Roth
Sept. 9, 2015
“Occupation, shmoccupation!” declares a new booklet published by the Yesha Council, the lobbying and political arm of West Bank settlements.
____Titled “Kibush kishkush” (which translates more literally as “occupation nonsense”), the pamphlet states its professed aim of addressing “misconceptions about settlements and the settler public in Judea and Samaria.”
____The book is intended to tackle the “stigmas left-wing organizations are trying to disseminate,” Yesha Council spokesperson Yigal Dakmoni told Ynet.
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“AN  ADDRESS,”  BY  RASHID  HUSSEIN
―1―
Hairs as short as my life is
And a mouth as sensuous as my dreams
And fire is her voice
And so is the music
Yet she wants me to rest
On an easy chair
And keep my thoughts clean.

Oh my dear hunter!
What you ask is much more
Than all that I can give. . .
For the angels are dead
And I am not one of them.
―2―
A wine was her perfume
Generous was her bed
But her hopes were stronger,
And the strongest of all:
She wanted my address.
She asked: “Where lives the ‘Prince’?”
Then, I stood silenced
For I had no address.
I am a man in transit,
Twenty years in transit
A man who was even deprived
The right of having an address.

From: Aruri, Naseer and Edmund Ghareeb, eds. ENEMY  OF  THE  SUN:  POETRY  OF  THE  PALESTINIAN  RESISTANCE. Washington, DC: Drum and Spear Press, 1970.
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Rashid Hussein (1936-1977) was born in Musmus, Palestine. He published his first collection in 1957 and established himself as a major Palestinian poet and orator. He was the first celebrity poet to appear on the Arab-Israeli stage; other poets called him “the star“. He showed them it was possible to write about “human things“ – bread, hunger, anger.
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