❶ Facing Reality: Jewish terrorism is no longer limited to just a few bad seeds
❷ World Bank warns of ‘high risk’ of Palestine-Israel conflict
❸ Israeli forces round up 36 Palestinians after West Bank clashes
❹ Analysis: Israel Has Achieved All Its Objectives
❺ Opinion/Analysis: Abbas’ peace project has hit a dead end
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❶ MONDOWEISS
FACING  REALITY:  JEWISH  TERRORISM  IS  NO  LONGER  LIMITED  TO  JUST  A  FEW  BAD  SEEDS
Karin Attia
Sept. 29, 2015
Stabbing at the Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem. Death of 16-year-old Shira Banki. Arson attack on a family home in the West Bank. Deaths of 18-month old Ali Saad Dawabsheh, his father Saad Dawabsheh’s, and mother Reham Dawabsheh.
____It is time to look inwards at a rising culture of violence rather than facile explanations about individual bad seeds. Something is growing insidiously among us: racism, intolerance and hate. With attacks occurring more frequently, these seeds are no longer limited to one crazy individual, one extremist; instead they are indicative of widespread cultural seeds of racism, intolerance, and hate. These seeds have been cultivating for some time.
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(Karin Attia was born in Haifa, Israel, raised in Los Angeles, California, and is currently living in New York City studying as a Master’s student at New York University.)

❷ MA’AN NEWS AGENCY
WORLD  BANK  WARNS  OF  ‘HIGH  RISK’  OF  PALESTINE-ISRAEL  CONFLICT
Sept. 29, 2015
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The World Bank has warned of the “high risk” of renewed Palestine-Israel conflict following the third straight year of increasing poverty in the occupied Palestinian territory.
____In a report released Tuesday, the World Bank pointed to war, reduced donor aid, the suspension of revenue payments, and ongoing restrictions by Israel as having had “a severe impact on the Palestinian economy.”
____”The persistence of this situation could potentially lead to political and social unrest,” the report said.
____”In short, the status quo is not sustainable and downside risks of further conflict and social unrest are high,” said the World Bank.
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❸ MA’AN NEWS AGENCY
ISRAELI  FORCES  ROUND  UP  36  PALESTINIANS  AFTER  WEST  BANK  CLASHES
Sept. 30, 2015
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained 36 Palestinians across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank overnight Tuesday a day after violent clashes took place across the occupied Palestinian territory.
____Israeli police spokesperson Mickey Rosenfeld said . . . that all detainees were “involved in recent disturbances in and around the Old City of Jerusalem.” [. . . . .]
____A lawyer for Palestinian prisoners’ rights group Addameer, Muhammad Mahmoud, told Ma’an that Israeli forces detained four Palestinians in the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya. [. . . . .]
____At least 18 Palestinians were injured on Tuesday when Israeli forces suppressed demonstrations across the West Bank that were held in support of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
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❹ Analysis:
PALESTINE CHRONICLE
ISRAEL  HAS  ACHIEVED  ALL  ITS  OBJECTIVES
Hasan Afif El-Hasan
Sep 29 2015
Israel never had it so good today and justice to the Palestinians never has been so remote. Arab regimes have no credible options that may threaten Israel strategically, or they do not care if Israel continues to defy the UN resolutions and the International Court of Justice rulings. They are either fighting their own people or fighting each other. The Palestinians are hopelessly divided and the Arab Masses are not expected to help because they are heavily burdened by their own issues. [. . . . .]
____After eight decades since the cleansing of Palestine from its Arab population by its military and terrorist organizations, and almost five decades after the 1967 war and the occupation of Palestinian lands, Israel has no intention to make a just peace with its victims.
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❺ Opinion/Analysis:
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ABBAS’  PEACE  PROJECT  HAS  HIT  A  DEAD  END
Menachem Klein
Sept. 30, 2015
He chose the path of moderation. He agreed to a small Palestinian state alongside Israel. He won the support of America and Europe. He proved his obligation to maintaining security for Israelis. And he got nothing in return. The tragedy of Mahmoud Abbas, part one of a two-part series.
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“I  MAY  LOSE  MY  DAILY  BREAD,”  BY  SAMIH  AL-QASIM
I may lose my daily bread, if you wish
I may hawk my clothes and bed
I may become a stonecutter, or a porter
Or a street sweeper
I may search in animal dung for food
I may collapse, naked and starved
Enemy of light
I will not compromise
And to the end
I shall fight.
You may rob me of the last span of my land
You may ditch my youth in prison holes
Steel what my grandfather left me behind:
Some furniture or clothes and jars,
You may burn my poems and books
You may feed your dog on my flesh
You may impose a nightmare of your terror
On my village
Enemy of light
I shall not compromise
And to the end
I shall fight.

“Poems of Resistance: 7 Poems for Palestine.” SCOOP  WORLD  INDEPENDENT  NEWS. January 2011. Web. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1101/S00522/poems-of-resistance-7-poems-for-palestine.htm
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