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Recent headlines by Western news outlets, such as the BBC, CNN and The Telegraph, in the coverage of the recent spate of violence currently unfolding in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory have tended to focus on the Israeli victims of the unrest. On the other hand, little critical analysis has been dedicated to the deaths of any of the 44 Palestinians killed by Israel since the beginning of the month.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768350

BBC implies Palestinian dead are Israeli

A fresh Israeli onslaught against Palestinians began at the start of October, resulting in almost 50 Palestinians killed in just under three weeks.

Nearly 10 Israelis were slain during that same period.

While extreme and sustained Israeli violence against Palestinians is a routine feature of Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, just as predictable is the BBC’s coverage of it.

And so it comes as no surprise to witness the BBC focusing almost exclusively on Palestinian attacks on Israelis while presenting Israel, not only as the victim, but the sole victim of October’s violence — while mentioning Palestinian fatalities only in passing.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/amena-saleem/bbc-implies-palestinian-dead-are-israeli

NYTimes: Report accurately on Palestine/Israel

No media organization is more influential in shaping the way American policymakers and news outlets think about Israel and Palestine than the New York Times.

But with some notable exceptions, the Times has done a shamefully poor job of including the historical and political context readers need to understand the roots of the current uprising.

Over the last 2 weeks, over 2,000 Palestinians have been injured and over 41 killed, including at least 8 children. Eight Jewish Israelis have been killed, and one asylum seeker from Eritrea. Though it can be difficult to make sense of these difficult days, the message from Palestinians is clear: they want freedom, justice, and dignity.

Yet, the Times’ headlines consistently frame Israel as the victim, completely misrepresenting an uprising which is a response to decades of displacement, occupation and repression.

Unless we put pressure on the New York Times to accurately report what is happening, the story of Palestinians struggling for freedom will be obscured in the paper of record.

http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/29-upcomming-resistance/1092-nytimes-report-accurately-on-palestine-israel

Netanyahu speech blames Palestinians for Holocaust

Secretary-General of the PLO, Saeb Erekat, on Wednesday strongly condemned comments by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the 37th World Zionist Congress which blamed the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem for actions taken by Nazi Germany under leader Adolf Hitler.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768397

Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly asserted that Adolf Hitler had no intention of exterminating Europe’s Jews until a Palestinian persuaded him to do it.

The Israeli prime minister’s attempt to whitewash Hitler and lay the blame for the Holocaust at the door of Palestinians signals a major escalation of his incitement against and demonization of the people living under his country’s military and settler-colonial rule.

It also involves a good deal of Holocaust denial.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/why-benjamin-netanyahu-trying-whitewash-hitler

Israeli forces shot and injured at least nine Palestinians with live fire on Tuesday during clashes across the occupied West Bank, medics and witnesses said.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768379

Israeli forces detained 47 Palestinians from across the occupied West Bank overnight Tuesday and early Wednesday during detention raids.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768385

Israeli crackdown turning life in al-Issawiya into 'nightmare'

As Israeli authorities increase restrictions on Palestinian neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem, residents of al-Issawiya say humiliating inspections by Israeli forces have turned their lives into a “nightmare."

"The Israeli occupation is trying to practice a policy of humiliation at the military checkpoints in the main exits of al-Issawiya," said Hani al-Issawi, a member of a local committee to defend land in in the town.

"Residents are not allowed to leave the village in groups. Every single person must undergo inspections," he added.

Men, including the elderly, are forced to pull up their shirts up and sometimes take their trousers down upon entrance and exit to the neighborhood, while many undergo physical inspections.

Female residents of the town are often searched by female soldiers who decide whether to carry out physical inspections or to check their bags and identification documents.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768387

A general strike is being conducted in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Issawiya Tuesday in protest of recent Israeli actions against the 15,000 residents of the area.

http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1089-strike-in-east-jerusalem-s-issawiya

Barbarity on Israeli streets

A confession. Exactly fifteen years ago, on 13 October 2000, I had a moment of doubt about my commitment to the struggle of Palestinian liberation. Hundreds of angry Palestinians lynched and killed two lost Israeli soldiers. Lynching someone, whether in Oklahoma or Ramallah, has always been in my eyes the expression of barbarity that hides our humanity. If the barbarity of the Israeli colonial occupation has rubbed off on the Palestinian victims, have they lost their humanity? Can the colonial conflict deteriorate into shocking barbarity? And if that is the case, do I still have a place in this conflict? After some time, reason took precedence over gut feelings:Israel's colonial occupation remains the mother of all barbarities whilst wild behaviour on the part of the victims is simply a side effect.

http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/aicoment/1091-barbarity-on-israeli-streets

Palestinians need hope, not calm

Since the current upsurge of violence in Israel and occupied Palestine began, numerous foreign leaders, as well as the UN Security Council, have cited the urgent need to restore “calm”. It is not calm, a euphemism for Palestinian submission, which is urgently needed but rather genuine and credible hope for freedom and some measure of justice.

http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/palestinians-need-hope-not-calm-1825277540