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Gingrich tells Palestinian-American Republican questioner his identity was invented in 1970s
Responding to a Palestinian-American Republican's question with remarks reminiscent of those made in past debates, Newt Gingrich echoed his earlier statements that Palestinians
are an "invented people" and Mitt Romney blamed Palestinians for the failed peace process. The IMEU offers the following factsheets to elaborate on these issues:
17-year-old Amal Hamamdeh tried to hand her cousin a water bottle to wash her pepper-sprayed eyes as they both
protested demolitions by Israeli forces in their village.
When soldiers interfered, some water was spilled on them. Amal's first military court session took place January 15th on charges of throwing water, spitting, and swearing.
The charges come just a week after a Jewish Member of the Israeli Knesset (MK) threw water at a Palestinian MK.
Criminal charges have not been filed in the latter case.
The French parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee published an unprecedented report two weeks ago accusing Israel of implementing "apartheid" policies in its
allocation of water resources in the West Bank. The report said that water has become "a weapon serving the new apartheid" and gave examples and statistics that
ostensibly back this claim.
Israel plans to expel 27,000 Palestinians living in the completely Israeli-controlled "Area C" part of the West Bank. At first, some 2,300 people will be expelled from their homes near the Ma'ale Adummim settlement and relocated to a site next to the Abu Dis garbage dump, east of Jerusalem.
The supreme court has voted to uphold a law which bans thousands of Palestinians who are married to Israelis from living in Israel. The ruling was denounced as racist by human rights organisations.
The law has prevented thousands from the West Bank and Gaza from living with their spouses who are generally Palestinian citizens of Israel.
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