Settlement Watch-The expansion of the municipal border of Jerusalem http://settlementwatcheastjerusalem.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/the-expansion-of-the-municipal-border-of-jerusalem/

The Mayor of Jerusalem and the Minister of Interior will announce today in a press conference on the expansion of Jerusalem’s jurisdiction area with some 243 Dunams (60 Acres). Within the current political atmosphere, when every unilateral move by Israel in Jerusalem can cause a diplomatic crisis, this minor change in the Municipal borders of Jerusalem attracts a lot of public attention.

The area that is being added to Jerusalem is of an enclave of the Ramat Rachel Kibbutz. 77% of the 243 Dunams to be added to Jerusalem are West of the Green Line (187 Dunams). Some 56 Dunams are in the “No Man’s Land” that was set up between Israel and Jordan, where no side was allowed to enter or to use the area according to the 1949 ceasefire agreement.

Occupation bulldozers change features of Bab al-Amoud http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7QsnYqkFCNFTnPpz0bCOQbrQbRpSOOQF%2fq6X1ds6qEEDnJGxv%2bICPgUjwnttM9reGa%2fMWZ6zgJVetDQFCkv4te6fUeQryJrycz7FpVOHPGb8%3d

Israeli occupation bulldozers under protection of occupation police and soldiers started on Tuesday morning to uproot olive trees from a park close to Bab al-Amoud (Damascus Gate) in occupied Jerusalem ... The Zionist municipality had announced intentions of building a Talmudic park near the walls of the old city to give the holy city a Talmudic feel. Palestinian youth in Jerusalem protested these acts and fist fights broke out between the protesting youth and the police and soldiers. Two Palestinian youth were arrested and taken to the police station in Salahuddin Street.

Israel plans annexation of Salfit land http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s71a%2fp%2bxTvw4WAuMMl0%2ffM1xOm5JlKOU26SPpRRFGYkDi9%2fYXvWVjRFFFegVyU%2blQQBdZJwo59ocZvokErC1wcgO3cpAVrtdob%2fD%2fymSID71o%3d

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has decided to annex 2000 dunums of Palestinian land in Salfit in the West Bank so as to expand Jewish settlements built in their vicinity. Mayor of Qarawat Bani Hassan village in Salfit Abdulkarim Rayyan said on Tuesday that the targeted land is to the north and east of the village and is rich in almond, olive, and fig trees ... Rayyan affirmed that more than 40 Palestinian families in the area own documents proving their ownership of the land and would defend their land with all available means and would resist that scheme.

Israeli police using new stunning device on protesters http://silwanic.net/?p=17053

Israeli undercover units are employing a new, unknown electrical device in crowd-control missions in East Jerusalem, say witnesses. Residents of Anata refugee camp stated that undercover police were witnessed brandishing a formerly unseen small electrical device at protesters during clashes in recent days that, when applied, temporarily cripple the movement of those targeted. The stunning device was not seen applied directly to the skin of targeted protesters, needing only to be activated from several metres away and generally pointed at the feet. The device was used as a means of crippling protesters to allow police to move in and arrest them with ease.

Israeli occupation forces attacked yesterday at night a mentally disabled boy in Al-Khader town in the south of Bethlehem http://www.paltelegraph.com/palestine/west-bank/9260-israeli-soldiers-attack-palestinian-boy-in-bethlehem.html

Israeli occupation forces attacked yesterday at night a mentally disabled boy in Al-Khader town in the south of Bethlehem. Security sources said that Israeli soldiers invaded the town arresting the boy,14, and severely beating him before being released. The boy was evacuated to a hospital in Bethlehem for medical treatment due to injuries inflicted on his body.

Campaign to vilify Gaza flotilla underway in Europe / David Cronin http://electronicintifada.net/content/campaign-vilify-gaza-flotilla-underway-europe/10009

Over the past few weeks newspapers in the Netherlands have published articles alleging that some Dutch organizers of the flotilla are “terror supporters.” The main focus of these smears was Rob Groenhuijzen, chairman of the Netherlands Gaza Foundation, who was imprisoned for radical activities more than thirty years ago ...

"They don’t have the political or legal means [to stop the flotilla] and that’s why they try to criminalize the flotilla’s participants," he told me. Unfortunately, the government in The Hague has proven receptive to the anti-flotilla campaign. A Dutch office of the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (known by the acronym IHH) was recently placed on a national list of banned organizations.

Haim Saban hints: No more donations to Obama http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4073720,00.html

Billionaire funder of 2008 Democratic campaign disappointed by Obama's conduct towards Israel -- Media mogul Haim Saban, who has donated millions to the Democratic Party -- especially during its 2008 campaign, led by President Barack Obama -- has hinted that he will not continue to donate in 2012.

[Saban center is intertwined with obamas main think tank brookings,and i guarantee you,that obamas envoys and administration will continue speaking there every other day as they have been doing on behalf of israhell,as they ahve done since he came into office,mark my words...