❶ Israel sentences 7 Palestinian minors to 1-3 years of imprisonment
❷ Israeli forces detain 9 Palestinians in overnight raids across West Bank
❸ 5-year-old Duma attack survivor meets Real Madrid idol
❹ History: ZIONISM’S LONG AND RICH HISTORY OF DELEGITIMIZING PALESTINIANS
❺ Opinion/Analysis: FLEEING THE WORLD’S LARGEST PRISON: A JOURNEY FROM GAZA TO ISRAEL
❻ Poetry by Tawfiq Ziad
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❶ ISRAEL  SENTENCES  7  PALESTINIAN  MINORS  TO  1-3  YEARS  OF  IMPRISONMENT
PALESTINE NEWS NETWORK
17 Mar. 2016
The judge of the Israeli District Court on Wednesday, 16 March, has sentenced seven minors from Jerusalem with actual imprisonment with ranging period, starting with 12 months and up to 39 months.
___According to Wadi Hilweh Information Center, charges against the children include hurling stones at settlers’ vehicles while passing from Beit Hanina, north of Jerusalem Street.      MORE . . . 

❷ ISRAELI  FORCES  DETAIN  9  PALESTINIANS  IN  OVERNIGHT  RAIDS  ACROSS  WEST  BANK
MA’AN NEWS AGENCY
March 18, 2016
Israeli forces detained nine Palestinians from across the occupied West Bank Friday, an Israeli army spokesman said.
___The spokesperson told Ma’an that two Palestinians were detained in the village of Silat al-Thahr near Jenin. . . . In the village of Habla in the northern district of Qalqiliya . . . . in al-Jalazun refugee camp in the central West Bank district of Ramallah. . . . in the Hebron district . . . .
___The spokesperson told Ma’an all were detained for suspected illegal activity or alleged involvement with Hamas.      MORE . . .

❸ 5-YEAR-OLD  DUMA  ATTACK  SURVIVOR  MEETS  REAL MADRID  IDOL
MA’AN NEWS AGENCY
March 17, 2016
A Palestinian child whose family was killed in an arson attack committed by Israeli settlers last year was welcomed by major Spanish football club Real Madrid on Thursday.
___Ahmad Dawabsha, 5, arrived at the Real Madrid club headquarters in Madrid accompanied by his grandfather, where he met a number of players including his idol Cristiano Ronaldo.
___Ahmad was the sole survivor of a deadly arson attack carried out by extremist Israeli settlers on his family home in the northern West Bank village of Duma on July 30 last year.      MORE . . .

❹ HISTORY:   ZIONISM’S  LONG  AND  RICH  HISTORY  OF  DELEGITIMIZING  PALESTINIANS
MONDOWEISS 
Thomas S. Harrington
17 Mar. 2016
Demonstrating once again the sniveling and shameless fealty to the wealthy that she and her husband have elevated to a high art over the last 30 years, Hillary Clinton wrote a letter to Israeli-American billionaire Haim Saban last July 6th in which she said that: I know you agree that we need to make countering BDS a priority. . . .      MORE . . . . 

❺ OPINION/ANALYSIS:  FLEEING  THE  WORLD’S  LARGEST  PRISON:  A  JOURNEY  FROM  GAZA  TO  ISRAEL
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Samah Salaime
18 Mar. 2016
When Shefaa was granted permission to leave Gaza for a four-day visit to Israel to meet with a group of Jewish and Palestinian women, it was nothing short of a miracle. There she could tell her story and dispel the myths about life in Gaza.       MORE . . .

“I  CLASP  YOUR  HANDS,”  BY  TAWFIQ  ZIAD
I call upon you
And clasp your hands.
I kiss the dust under your shoe
And say: I’ll lay down my life for you,
Grant you the gift of eyesight in my eyes.
The warm love in my heart I give to you,
For the tragedy I live
Is but mu share in your larger tragedy.

I call upon you
And clasp your hands.
I never stooped in my country
Nor will I ever be humbled.
Orphaned, naked and barefoot
I confronted my oppressors,
Carrying my blood in my palms.

I have never lowered my flags,
And have always tended the grass over my ancestors’ graves.
I call upon you, and clasp your hands!

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.
Tawfiq Ziad was a Palestinian poet, writer, scholar and politician. He was born in Nazareth in 1929 and died on July 5, 1994 in a dreadful car crash while on his way to meet Yasser Arafat in Jericho after the Oslo agreements. He participated in Palestinian political life in occupied Palestine, was elected mayor of Nazareth, and served as a member of the Israeli Knesset.