❶ The anger of Palestine’s ‘lost’ generation
❷ 16-year-old Palestinian shot dead after alleged attack in Jerusalem
❸ People in Israel and around the world support #selfiesforpalestine
❸A ― In pictures: Closure, siege and checkpoints in the villages and neighborhoods of Jerusalem
❹ Zionism’s ‘Double Ghettoisation’
❺ Opinion/Analysis: Let’s not forget that East Jerusalem Palestinians are stateless
❻ Poetry by Mahmoud Darwish
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❶ MA’AN NEWS AGENCY
THE  ANGER  OF  PALESTINE’S  ‘LOST’  GENERATION
Killian Redden
Oct. 16, 2015
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A few weeks before an Israeli soldier shot him through the stomach, Mutaz Zawahreh discovered a love of the sea.
____On the coast of Brittany, Mutaz and two friends from Duheisha refugee camp, Murad Ouda and Issa al-Saifi . . . spent two months in France as part of an educational program organized by a center in Duheisha.
____But as their visit progressed, the first signs of unrest began to show in the occupied Palestinian territory, and the three grew anxious to return home [. . . . .].
____The three returned, and several days later Ghassan ended his hunger strike when Israel agreed to release him in November. But the brothers never saw each other.
____On Oct. 13, at a demonstration before Israel’s separation wall in northern Bethlehem, Mutaz was shot dead, the 30th Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces in under two weeks [. . . . .].
____Issa [friend of Mutaz] acknowledged that Palestinians risking their lives to throw stones at Israel’s separation wall were unlikely to cause Israel any material damage [. . . . .].
____The protests are the cry of a Palestinian generation that has felt for too long that no one is listening to them.
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❷ MA’AN NEWS AGENCY
16-YEAR-OLD  PALESTINIAN  SHOT  DEAD  AFTER  ALLEGED  ATTACK  IN  JERUSALEM
Oct. 17, 2015
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — A 16-year-old Palestinian was shot dead Saturday morning after allegedly attempting to stab an Israeli policeman in the illegal settlement of East Talpiot in occupied East Jerusalem, police said.
____The teen reportedly attempted to stab the officer in the settlement, also known as Armon Hanatziv, according to Israeli police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld. . .
____He was identified as Muataz Ahmad Hajis Uweisat.
____The teen was killed less than two hours after FADIL QAWASMI, 18, WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY AN ISRAELI SETTLER IN HEBRON after the teen reportedly attempted to stab him.
____No Israeli injuries were reported in either incident.
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❸ PALESTINE NEWS NETWORK
PEOPLE  IN  ISRAEL  AND  AROUND  THE  WORLD  SUPPORT  #SELFIESFORPALESTINE
PEOPLE in Israel and across the globe are showing solidarity for Palestine by posting online photos of themselves with the hashtag #selfiesforpalestine
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❸A ― WADI HILWEH INFORMATION CENTER – SILWAN (EAST JERUSALEM)
IN  PICTURES:  CLOSURE,  SIEGE  AND  CHECKPOINTS  IN  THE  VILLAGES  AND  NEIGHBORHOODS  OF  JERUSALEM
October 16, 2015
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❹ THE PALESTINE CHRONICLE
ZIONISM’S  ‘DOUBLE  GHETTOISATION’
Jeremy Salt
Oct. 17, 2015
In the late medieval period ‘pale’ was the word used by the English to describe their colony in Ireland. They lived within the ‘pale’ (from the Latin ‘palus’), a line of settlement bounded by castles and fortresses. Beyond the pale lived the invaded and therefore dangerous Irish.
____Centuries later Jews had to live within what was called the ‘pale of settlement’ in European Russia. . . .
____With some exceptions Jews were not allowed to live outside the Russian pale of settlement. They could escape if they had the money and left in waves after each pogrom, heading for Europe, for the United States, the dream of many, and for the Zionists among them, for Palestine.
____While superiority has been ascribed historically both to those living within and beyond a pale of settlement, it is only the phrase ‘beyond the pale’ that has come to mean people whose behavior is outrageous, deplorable and intolerable. All of these words are fitting to describe the attitudes and behavior of many Israelis in recent weeks. Torrents of pure hatred have been directed by soldiers, police and civilians against Palestinians [. . . . .].
____Zionism remains a state-building ideology. Compassion is a weakness and there can be no possibility of pity for the Palestinians until they have been comprehensively and absolutely defeated. Like the indigenous people of the United States, only when the Palestinians have been reduced to an atomized ethnic minority will it be safe to admit the ‘mistakes’ of the past and acknowledge the crimes of the forefathers.
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❺ Opinion/Analysis
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LET’S  NOT  FORGET  THAT  EAST  JERUSALEM  PALESTINIANS  ARE  STATELESS
Edo Konrad
Oct. 16, 2015
The stabbing of an Israeli soldier in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba and the killing of two Palestinian demonstrators in demonstrations held in Gaza and the West Bank were just the latest events in the downward spiral of violence across Israel/Palestine.
____Earlier this week, Haaretz published two different op-eds claiming that that very violence is both the result and the harbinger of the “bi-national state” Prime Minister Netanyahu has repeatedly warned against, yet has done very little to avoid [. . . . .].
____The problem with Shavit and Barak’s arguments isn’t that they prefer a two-state solution over a bi-national state, but that they pretend as if the two-state solution were ever actually implemented in the first place.
____There is no better time to hammer home the fact: Palestinians in East Jerusalem are a stateless people. This has been the case since June 7, 1967, when East Jerusalem was captured by the Israeli army.
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“PROMISES  FROM AL-ASSIFA ― THE STORM,” **  BY  MAHMOUD  DARWISH
Be that as it may,
I must reject death,
And dry the tears of sentimental songs,
And rid the olive trees
Of all the false branches.
For if I sing the song of joy
Behind the lids of frightened eyes,
It is because the Storm
Has swept the standing trees
Clean
Of all the dull sparrows
And false branches.
Be that as it may,
I must be proud of you, wound of the city,
You are a light in our sad nights.
As the streets frown in my face,
You shield me from the shade and looks of hatred.
I will sing the song of joy,
Behind lids of apprehensive eyes,
For in my country, the Storm has blown,
Promising wine and rainbows.

“**Al-Assifa, the Storm, is the military arm of Fatah. Punning is a favorite figure of Arab poets, ancient and modern.”
From: A  LOVER  FROM  PALESTINE  AND  OTHER  POEMS:  AN  ANTHOLOGY  OF  PALESTINIAN  POETRY. Ed. Abdul Wahab Al-Messiri. Washington, DC: Free Palestine Press, 1970.
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Interview with Mahmoud Darwish