❶ Palestinian Girl Shot Dead after Alleged Attack near Jerusalem Market
❷ New Jewish settlements planned ‘on top of’ Bedouin villages
❸ Providing settler terrorism with a tailwind
❹ 3 Palestinians & 1 Israeli Killed Sunday; 94 Palestinians Killed since 10/1 (List)
❺ Opinion/Analysis: Why Netanyahu used the Paris attacks to erroneously depict the latest ‘Intifada’ as a religious and ideological war
❻ Poetry by Samih Al-Qasim
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❶ MA’AN NEWS AGENCY
PALESTINIAN  GIRL  SHOT  DEAD  AFTER  ALLEGED  ATTACK  NEAR  JERUSALEM  MARKET
Nov. 23, 2015
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SETTLER  RUNS  OVER,  SHOOTS  AND KILLS  16-YEAR-OLD  PALESTINIAN  GIRL  IN  NABLUS
Nov. 22, 2015
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156  PALESTINIANS  SHOT  BY  ISRAELI  FORCES  IN  WEST  BANK,  GAZA CLASHES [On Friday, Nov. 20]
Nov. 20, 2015
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SETTLER  SHOOTS  DEAD  2ND  PALESTINIAN  FOLLOWING  ALLEGED  ATTACK  ATTEMPT
Nov. 22, 2015
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SETTLERS  ATTACK  PALESTINIAN  HOMES  IN  HEBRON
Nov. 22, 2015
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NEW  JEWISH  SETTLEMENTS  PLANNED  ‘ON  TOP  OF’  BEDOUIN  VILLAGES
Natasha Roth
Nov. 23, 2015
The Israeli government on Sunday approved a plan for five new Jewish settlements to be built in the Negev (Naqab) in the south of Israel. The plan, which was submitted by Housing Minister Yoav Galant of Kulanu, threatens to displace thousands of Bedouin from their homes.
___Two of the settlements are due to be built where Bedouin villages already exist, according to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI). The new town of Daya is to be established on top of the unrecognized village of Katamat, which would displace its 1,500 Bedouin residents. Neve Gurion, meanwhile, is meant to be built on part of the land of the recognized village of Be’er Hadaj, home to 6,000 Bedouin citizens of Israel.
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PROVIDING  SETTLER  TERRORISM  WITH  A  TAILWIND
Yossi Gurvitz
Nov. 21, 2015
The case of the Givat Ze’ev synagogue combines almost all of the ills of the Israeli occupation in the West Bank. Last week we witnessed a new low, when the High Court of Justice dealt with a request that has sadly become all-too-common: to rescind, through postponement, its own verdict. This was a cowardly and audacious request by the police, to which the court acceded. How did we get here?
___Let’s begin with the legal picture. On July 31st, 2014 the High Court ruled that an illegally-built synagogue in Givat Ze’ev is to be demolished, as it was built on private Palestinian land belonging to Rabah Abdallatif. In plain words: Israeli civilians stole and built a synagogue on it.
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❹ IMEMC-INTERNATIONAL MIDDLE EAST MEDIA CENTER
3  PALESTINIANS  &  1  ISRAELI  KILLED  SUNDAY;  94  PALESTINIANS  KILLED  SINCE  10/1  (LIST)
Nov. 23, 2015
Three Palestinians, including a 16-year old girl, were shot and killed by Israelis on Sunday. All three were accused of ‘having a knife’, but in two of the three killings, eyewitnesses contradicted the Israeli military’s account that the person killed ‘had a knife’
___In the latest numbers on injuries, from this past Friday, November 20th, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported that more than 10,000 Palestinians were injured since October 1st, including at least 1458 who were shot with live army fire, and 1070 shot with rubber-coated steel bullets.
___The Ministry also said that 300 Palestinians suffered fractures and bruises after being assaulted by Israeli soldiers and paramilitary settlers in the West Bank, in addition to 26 Palestinians who suffered burns due to Israeli gas bombs and concussion grenades, while 6400 Palestinians suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
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❺ Opinion/Analysis
PALESTINE NEWS NETWORK
WHY  NETANYAHU  USED  THE  PARIS  ATTACKS  TO  ERRONEOUSLY  DEPICT  THE  LATEST  ‘INTIFADA’  AS  A  RELIGIOUS  AND  IDEOLOGICAL  WAR
Megan Hanna
Nov. 23, 2015
The sirens had barely stopped wailing before commentators started exploiting the terror attacks in Paris on Friday 13th November, twisting the horrific event to serve a range of varying political agendas. A coordinated group of gunmen associated with ISIS carried out separate attacks in the French capital, leading to the deaths of at least 129 people. While most of the world mourned in respectful grief, an opportunistic few used the event to begin speaking about issues as varied as climate change, anti-immigration and unrest in the Middle East.
___Given his tendency for making tenuous connections between Israel’s plight and disparate foreign events, it’s no surprise that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was one of the first to climb up on France’s bloodied bandwagon to make hasty links between Paris and present-day Israel.
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“A  HOMELAND,”  BY  SAMIH AL-QASIM

So what,
When in my homeland
The sparrow dies of starvation,
In exile, without a shroud,
While the earthworm is satiated,
Devouring God’s food!

So what,
When the yellow fields
Yield no more to their tillers
Than memories of weariness,
While their rich harvest pours
Into the granaries of the usurper!

So what,
If the cement has diverted
The ancient springs,
Causing them to forget their natural course,
When their owner calls,
They cry in his face: “Who are you?”

So what,
When the almond and the olive tree have turned to timber
Adorning tavern doorways,
And monuments
Whose nude loveliness beautifies halls and bars,
And is carried by tourists
To the farthest corners of the earth,
While nothing remains before my eyes
But dry leaves and tinder!

So what,
When my people’s tragedy
Has turned to farce in others’ eyes,
And my face is a poor bargain
That even the slave-trader gleefully disdains!

So what,
When in barren space the satellites spin,
And in the street walks a beggar, holding a hat,
And the song of autumn is heard!
Blow, East winds!
Our roots are still alive!

From THE  PALESTINIAN  WEDDING:  A  BILINGUAL  ANTHOLOGY  OF  CONTEMPORARY  PALESTINIAN  RESISTANCE  POETRY.  Ed. and Trans. A. M. Elmessiri. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2011. Reprint from Three Continents Press, Inc., 1982. Available from Palestine Online Store.