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On April 4th 2013 the BBC News website ran an article on its Middle East page under the title " Palestinians shot dead by Israeli fire in West Bank ". The original article - published late the previous night - looked like this:

The next day, that article was replaced with this version:

As we see, the headline already hints at a tale of inactive Palestinians who are the victims of Israeli action. The report opens:

"Two Palestinian teenagers have been shot and killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Tulkarm after clashes between soldiers and youths."

The phrasing of this sentence reinforces the impression given by the headline by leading with the statement that the young men were "shot and killed" before getting into the subject of why that happened. The sentence also includes two major inaccuracies.

The incident, which took place after dark on Wednesday April 3 rd, did not occur in Tulkarem at all, but several miles to the east at a security checkpoint near the village of Einav (in Area C), not far from the PA-controlled Area A village of Anabta. The BBC's description of the incident as "clashes between soldiers and youths" does not reflect the fact that the violence was initiated by the young men themselves when a group of Palestinians approached the security checkpoint and threw firebombs at the soldiers manning it.

The report goes on to say:

"Palestinian medical and security officials told AFP news agency the first youth confirmed killed was Amer Nassar, believed to be aged 16. They named the second victim as his cousin, Naji Balbisi, 17."

The majority of other reports on the incident state that Nasser was 17 years old and Balbisi was eighteen. Both were residents of Anabta.

Only in the third paragraph are readers given some idea of the circumstances of the incident, and even then that information is provided in the reverse order of events.

"The Israeli military said its troops opened fire on Palestinians who threw firebombs at a guard post."

In the seventh paragraph, readers finally find out what really happened:

"The Israel Defense Forces said several Palestinians had attacked a guard post near the settlement of Einav on Wednesday and troops opened fire in response. It said the incident was under investigation."

The report goes on to state: [emphasis added]

"The clashes late on Wednesday in Tulkarm, in the northern West Bank, came after a day of protests and a general strike across the territory."

"The protests were sparked by the death from cancer of Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh, who was 64, on Tuesday."

The words "clashes" and "protests" are inappropriate and inaccurate terminology when used to describe the pre-planned throwing of firebombs at human beings.

By contrast, a similar incident three months ago in Northern Ireland in which members of the security forces were attacked with firebombs was described by the BBC in much less euphemistic language. [all emphasis added]

"Ten officers were injured when police were attacked by a crowd throwing petrol bombs and missiles in Belfast."

" Disorder broke out at about 18:30 GMT..."

"The disturbances on Thursday..."

"Police said the crowd that attacked police was about 100 strong."

"Some of the demonstrations have resulted in violence, including the attempted murder of a police officer in a petrol bomb attack in east Belfast on 10 December."

The lack of continuity of language in describing two similar incidents in different countries is very revealing, both with regard to the descriptions of the actions themselves and the degree of activity/passivity ascribed to the attackers.

The BBC's report once again promotes PA propaganda relating to the recent death of a Palestinian terrorist, without pointing out that the subsequent unnecessary riots are entirely the fruit of that incitement promoted by the PA.

"The protests were sparked by the death from cancer of Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh, who was 64, on Tuesday.

Palestinian officials claim that Israel did not provide adequate medical care and failed to release him after diagnosing that his illness was terminal."

Likewise, BBC producer Jeannie Assad promoted hearsay surrounding the event on Twitter:

The BBC's attempt to frame the actions of the two young men from Anabta as being part of 'protests' at the death of Abu Hamdiyeh disingenuously conceals from the reading public the fact that riots and attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers - under some pretext or other - have been taking place on a regular basis in Judea and Samaria and the Jerusalem area for months.

The whole-hearted adoption by the BBC of the Palestinian narrative - whereby 'passive' Palestinians are killed by 'active' Israeli troops whilst engaging in unavoidable 'protests' which sometimes lead to 'clashes' - is clearly displayed in this report. The shoe-horning into that narrative of an incident in which a group of youths - entirely at their own initiative and under cover of darkness - attacked members of the security forces with firebombs, with some of them then being shot by soldiers who assessed their own lives were in danger, provides yet another example of reporting which fails to meet BBC editorial guidelines on accuracy and impartiality.

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On April 4th 2013 the BBC News website ran an article on its Middle East page under the title " Palestinians shot dead by Israeli fire in West Bank ".

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Nazareth teachers' new proposal to district lowers raises, increases health care contribution

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NAZARETH - Teachers in the Nazareth Area School District are touting their latest offer to the school district, which reduces raises and includes a greater contribution for benefits as a compromise that could end the contract stalemate.

Union President Adele Mitch said teachers met to discuss the four-year proposal Friday and voted Monday to ratify it in an effort to end what she said has become an ongoing distraction for educators. The offer was delivered Tuesday to district administration, she said.

"If the district accepts the proposal, it will end negotiations and avoid possible job action," Mitch said in a statement. "The teachers' offer will cause no financial hardship to the Nazareth community."

The proposal reaches into the narrow space between the district's offer and the recommendations of an independent fact finder commissioned by the district to resolve the contract dispute. That report, released in September, was supported by Nazareth educators, but rejected by the school board in October.

Mitch said the union's offer would do away with the current method used to calculate teacher salaries, saving the district $1 million over the course of the four-year contract.

The union's offer accepts the 2.64 percent raise proposed by the district for the 2015-16 school year, but calls for 3.6 percent raises in the 2016-17 and 2017-18 school years, followed by a 3.85 percent increase for the 2018-19 school year.

The district's five-year offer called for a 3.35 percent raise for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 school years followed by a 3.4 percent pay bump for the 2018-19 school year and then a 3.5 percent boost for the 2019-20 school year. Under the district's offer, in the final year of the contract, starting salary would be $52,487 and top salary $94,080.

The fact finder's report, encompassing recommendations for a three-year period, suggested a 3.6 percent raise in the 2015-16 and two subsequent years of a 3.7 percent pay increase.

The teachers union agrees to take on a greater burden for health care costs although teachers would keep their current plan, according to the offer. A family would expect to pay about $50 more per month for health care benefits, according to the teachers' proposal.

Nazareth Superintendent Dennis Riker said he'd offer comment after reviewing the proposal in detail.

Teachers have authorized a strike and are willing to use that as a last resort tool in the negotiation process, Mitch said.

Since Aug. 31, Nazareth's 330 teachers have been working without a contract. Negotiations for a new agreement began long before then, however, when the two sides started meeting in October 2014. A tentative agreement brokered during a marathon negotiating session in the fall put a stop to a potential strike, but that deal crumbled by December.

Union leadership and the district administration returned to the bargaining table in January.
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Nazareth teachers' new proposal to district lowers raises, increases health care contribution

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NAZARETH - Teachers in the Nazareth Area School District are touting their latest offer to the school district, which reduces raises and includes a greater contribution for benefits as a compromise that could end the contract stalemate.

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Nuclear Annihilation of a Radical Message on Israel: The Case of Concepcion Picciotto

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Nuclear Annihilation of a Radical Message on Israel: The Case of Concepcion Picciotto

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There were some lovely, moving moments in the memorial service of Concepcion Picciotto at Luther’s Place Church on Saturday.

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By Sam Husseini
There were some lovely, moving moments in the memorial service of Concepcion Picciotto at Luther's Place Church on Saturday.

Concepcion is known - with William Thomas, who died a few years ago - for leading what is apparently the longest protest in U.S. history: Against nuclear weapons in Lafayette Park, in front of the White House. She died last month.

As WTOP - the local news station noted today: "Picciotto's nuke vigil became a permanent fixture across from the White House for five consecutive presidents, including President Barack Obama, but not one of the presidents ever spoke to her."

Tom Hastings, with trembling hands holding the microphone, sobbed "I built nuclear weapons for 23 years" and then that Concepcion "was so unselfish" - as she literally died to the end for peace, with failing health, virtually homeless, continuing the vigil. She was almost like a protester who immolates themselves, but in slow motion.

At the memorial service, the speakers included former CIA man Ray McGovern who noted the Washington Post's apparent proclivity for questioning Concepcion's sanity, and asked who was the mad one here given the Post's apparent view that her desire to prevent nuclear war was at best quaint. Her lawyer, who spoke first and long, did some of the same, but seemed at one point to frame the nuclear threat stemming from the doctrine of MAD, mutually assured destruction, as a relic of the Cold War. He almost echoed a patronizing tone that one might hear from the Post, referring to his arguments with her, barely disguising an eyeroll.

There were glimmers of Concepcion's radicalness certainly during the service - she wasn't outright cooped into a banal liberal symbol as Martin Luther King often has been, but, critically, the word "Israel" was not uttered at the memorial in the church. This was incredibly since it was hard to go three minutes talking with Concepcion without her talking about Israel - either its crimes or the incredible threat posed by its unacknowledged nuclear weapons. Her work stressed things that so few do: Israel is perhaps the greatest threat because it has a massive nuclear arsenal, refuses to sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, uses violence with incredible impunity and it is an expansionist settler colonial state.

And Concepcion was not - as some, including Caitlin Gibson of the Washington Post have referred to her as - an anti nuclear "proliferation" activists. She was for disarmament. Concepcion was clear: "Live by the bomb, die by the bomb." Her point was the U.S. and other nuclear powers live by the bomb and must stop. She was about disarming the current nuclear weapons states; not simply preventing proliferation of nuclear weapons to more states. After all, it is largely the policy of the U.S. government that current nuclear weapons states should maintain them and others should be denied them. The U.S. government occasionally does wage or threaten wars over this issue.

Concepcion focusing on Israel was at times even jarring even to me - a Palestinian American - when I'd talk to her. Don't take my word for it, look up some videos of her. She doesn't go long before mentioning Israel. And if you think it through, for very good reason.

The word "Israel" was finally uttered from the microphone - after a hundred or so people left the church and went to the site of her long-standing protest in front of the White House and setup there photo-op style by Medea Benjamin of CodePink, complete with bizarre gravestone prop.

It was left to Simin Royanian, an Iranian-American activist to utter the word when finally granted the mic. She noted Concepcion's staunch opposition to Israel's Zionism and said she was always supportive of Palestinian and other liberation movements in the Mideast.

Perhaps it's thus with all prophets - the moment they die, many around them push aside their central statements that seem inconvenient but were actually the center-line to their dedication and integrity.

But, no, Concepcion was largely ignored in life. John Steinbach, longtime antinuclear peace activist and co-coordinator of the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee told me: "Concepcion wasn't taken serious by a lot of groups. I can't tell you number of times I tried to get mainstream peace groups that had protests in Lafayette Square to include or invite or at least acknowledge her vigil which was right there. It never happened." In contrast, Steinbach notes: "The Japanese [nuclear bomb] survivors loved and respected her and always wanted to spend time with her."

The memorial service did feature a Japanese representative reading a statement from the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee. Unfortunately, it also offered a fair number of cliches - "We Shall Overcome" and a lengthy homily presuming to praise the prophetic voice while ignoring much of the the substance of it, instead repeatedly invoking the song "Turn, Turn, Turn".

But there was nothing cliche about Concepcion.

She had a pointed, high pitched, Spanish accented voice and would utter totally political incorrect statements. "Don't Be a Lemming - Save Yourself - Renounce Genocidal Weapons" read her sign. "Silence is a war crime." She'd be good at staying on message as they say, repeating what her sighs would say. "Bush is war criminal" she'd repeat.

And she held signs on Israel up high and unapologetic: "Judaism YES / Zionism NO" and "Disarm IsraHell - 200 Illegal Nucs - Save the World - Save the Children" and "Stop Funding Israeli Terrorism."

Great stuff.

But she did make political statements on Israel that I would never make; and I didn't delved into her personal struggles with other activists, which were apparently contentious at times. One sign she'd hold up was "One Nation Under Israel" (which featured a U.S. flag with a star from the Israeli flag up it) and another: "Terrorists Are Us - 'Holocaust:' A Word Used by Zionists to perpetrate Crimes Against Humanity" (with a swastika scrawled in) - which featured the website of Neturei Karta - Orthodox Jews United Against Zionism.

I think the Nazi "Holocaust" isn't just a "word" that's been used for murderous purposes, but also an actual historical fact. But she didn't write that it was "just" that, though many may have read it that way. Nor do I subscribe to the view that the U.S. is "Under Israel". In fact, I don't much see nations any more. I mostly see forces: imperialism, colonialism, corporate capitalism, white supremacy and misogyny asserting their power and how other forces resist and are complicit with them.

But I've not seen any of Concepcion's signs on Israel any more at the memorial, which is continuing and seems to be sanitizing itself. As I write, the vigil does have one sign about an upcoming protest against AIPAC - so it's apparently still alright to crit rightwing Zionist groups - and perhaps unintentionally pump them up - but not the more liberal varieties. This type of framing divorces the centrality of Israel's nuclear weapons, which the U.S. government has rendered it forbidden to speak of, from the anti-nuclear work on the vigil.

Really, did you catch that? It's illegal for U.S. officials to talk about Israel's nuclear arsenal. As Grant Smith has found: "Under two known gag orders - punishable by imprisonment - U.S. security-cleared government agency employees and contractors may not disclose that Israel has a nuclear weapons program." So perhaps score one for the "One Nation Under Israel" camp.

But ignoring Israel's nuclear weapons has the ironic effect of the naive viewer wondering "why pick on Israel?" - since the Israeli nuclear arsenal - which was the brainchild of liberal Zionists Ben Gurion and Shimon Peres - is sidelined instead of being front and center.

Concepcion was certainly difficult, at least for me, to talk with. I tried helping her find housing at one point, which might have lead to connections that might have helped, I was hard to tell at times, but she was undoubtedly a handful - only housing around the White House would do of course. And I certainly wished that the protest would be more understandable, it certainly came off as eccentric at times. But I think that can be fixed without it being effectively sanitized, which seems where it is headed.

Front and center are now typical banal signs, which were back bench material for Concepcion: "War Is Not the Answer". Really? I've got news for you: War often is the answer. War can be exactly the answer if the question is how to effectively dominate the planet, which it often is to many.

The memorial service put on for Concepcion featured a rendition of "Ain't Gonna Study War No More." I disagree. We actually haven't studied war nearly enough. The "peace movement" needs to get over itself and talk about war: the death, destruction, flying limbs and stench of it in precise terms if it has any interest in actually changing things and not just feeling superior to those dreaded Republicans.

Fast disappearing from the vigil is what was central to Concepcion: by embracing a radical humanity, discerning the taboos of the establishment and rightly raged against them. At the current rate, I fully expect "Free Tibet" signs to pop up at the vigil.

In my chatting with her occasionally over the years, I think Concepcion pointed to a central truth - that colonialism and Zionism were central forces threatening the planet. And that central truth is continually obscured by people talking about neo-conservatives or liberal interventionists instead of seeing an entire neo-colonial project at work, or perhaps not so "neo" at times - just plain colonial. And one should be clear: She didn't really single out Israel as some do - she'd talk about unmentionable U.S. "terrorism" and "war crimes" as easily as Israeli.

If she seemed to become overly persistent on imperialism and Zionism and Israel's unacknowledged threat to humanity, I think it was a reaction to not just to those threats and officialdom and not just corporate media - but also "progressive activists" silence on central questions of nuclear armed Zionism.

Unfortunately, her own memorial service became a monument to that silence.

- Sam Husseini is communications director for the Institute for Public Accuracy. He also founded the website votepact.org, which encourages principled progressives to work with conscientious conservatives. He contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.com.

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Nuclear Annihilation of a Radical Message on Israel: The Case of Concepcion Picciotto - Palestine Chronicle

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By Sam Husseini There were some lovely, moving moments in the memorial service of Concepcion Picciotto at Luther's Place Church on Saturday. Concepcion is known - with William Thomas, who died a few years ago - for leading what is apparently the longest protest in U.S.

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The Israeli occupation forces arrested on Sunday early morning the family of Tarek Darwish which consists of 6 individuals including a child of three years old.

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PNN/Jerusalem

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested on Sunday early morning the family of Tarek Darwish which consists of 6 individuals including a child of three years old.

According to the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, Darwish Darwish explained that the IOF raided his son-in-law's house (Tarek Darwish) and searched it and damaged some of its contents.

During the raid, the Israeli soldiers assaulted and severely beat 44-year old Tarek Darwish. When his sons attempted to interfere and save their father, the IOF assaulted them and their mother as well.

Darwish Darwish added that the IOF arrested Tarek, his wife, his 3-year old son Darwish, 14-year old Batool, 7-year old Laith and 18-year old Yousef.

He explained that the Israeli soldiers detained the family members from 2:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. except for the baby who was released at 6:00 a.m.; the IOF extended the arrest of Laith until next Monday.

Silwan lies on the outskirts of Jerusalem's Old City. Israeli authorities have issued many of the Palestinian families with home demolition orders to clear the area for further development of the archaeological site known as the City of David.

Israel's Jerusalem municipality approved Town Plan Scheme 11555 for an archaeological park in the heart of Silwan, along with "roads, parking lots, paths, a promenade, open areas, a special public area, public buildings and institutions, engineering installations and housing."

Palestinians say the plan aims to squeeze them out of Jerusalem and Judaize the city. When completed, it will occupy 70 percent of their land and displace over 1,000 Palestinian residents.

According to the Defense for Children International - Palestine, the consequences of child arrests in Silwan, and other Palestinian neighborhoods of Jerusalem, extend beyond the detention period.

The traumatic experience of arrest and interrogation alongside the constant fear of arrest, disruption of education and the financial burden of posting bail and paying fines have taken their toll on the children, their families and the Silwan community as a whole.

According to Daoud Mahmmod from the Al-Bustan Popular Committee, Israel arrests Palestinian children "to obtain information about third persons, to threaten them and to make it clear that they are under permanent surveillance by showing them pictures and video material."

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Entire family arrested, including 3-year old child, Silwan - PNN

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PNN/Jerusalem The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested on Sunday early morning the family of Tarek Darwish which consists of 6 individuals including a child of three years old. According to the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, Darwish Darwish explained that the IOF raided his son-in-law's house (Tarek Darwish) and searched it and damaged some of its contents.

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Jerusalem: sacred to half the people on earth; fought over more than any other place in history; conquered and destroyed, rebuilt and reinvented repeatedly more than 5,000 years