Another Well and Another Goat
David Shulman - "The well belongs to the Palestinian shepherds of south Hebron, specifically to the Al-Murgh family, which has been chased off its lands here, in the tiny point called Al-Tawamin, by Israeli settlers and soldiers. Settlers from nearby Havat Yair or Sussya covet these lands and this well, as settlers covet every arid centimeter in south Hebron. Were here, among other reasons, to see that this slope, this well, dont fall victim to their greed"

IDF Report Confirming Goldstones Key Findings Is Suppressed Inside Israel
Max Blumenthal - "A report quietly submitted by IDF Military Advocate General Avichai Mandelblit to the United Nations two weeks ago regarding Israels conduct during Operation Cast Lead confirms the key findings of the Goldstone Report"

Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira suspected of incitement against non-Jews
Eli Senyor - Ynet - Yitzhar rabbi arrested on suspicion of incitement to violence against non-Jews after his book, `Torat Hamelech` says, `There`s no prohibition against killing gentile who violated Laws of Noah`

We were right, the US-Israel rift was simply much ado about nothing
Diana Buttu - Bitter Lemons - "But the US is too afraid to use its annual $3 billion in assistance to Israel as a stick. Instead, it will continue to turn a blind eye to Israels colonization while promising an increasingly compliant and complacent Palestinian leadership that, for domestic reasons, the Palestinians will have to wait until mid-term elections, or maybe second-term elections before the stick will be used against Israel"

Jerusalem Profile: Jabel Al-Mubaker
Margaret Locke and Elizabeth Farraday - AIC - "There are around 14,000 residents in Jabel Al-Mukaber. They fall under the jurisdiction of the Jerusalem Municipality and, like the Jewish residents of Jerusalem, pay municipal taxes. Jabel Al-Mukaber, however, does not receive the same services as Israeli settlements and neighbourhoods in the city. There are few serviceable roads, no sidewalks, no street lights, no mail service, and no sanitation services. Furthermore, the Jerusalem Municipality often shuts off the Palestinian water supply two or three times a week, leaving residents dependent on small water reserves collected from roof top water tanks"

Not in security, but peace
Merav Michaeli - Haaretz - As long as we don`t want peace or to believe in it, no matter what we call it, we will live with occupation and war, and not for long

And if he were Jewish?
Sima Kadmon-- Op-ed: Arab mans rape conviction raises disturbing questions about our legal system
US: PLO mission can now fly flag

HILARY LEILA KRIEGER JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDE-- Crowley did note, however, that the move represents an improvement in US relations with the Palestinian Authority.

A new party of good tidings
Avraham Burg-- In almost every area of the Israeli rift we need a new and clean political ocean: on issues of war and peace, in the realm between religion and the state, in the spaces between the insensitive Jewish majority and the oppressed minorities. There is also a gap between the rich who grow richer and the have-nots who have less and less all the time.

Israeli troops get orders to protect civilian welfare
Harriet Sherwood-- The Israeli military is to assign a "humanitarian affairs officer" to each combat unit to advise on the need to protect civilians and their property during conflicts.

Two dead and four children injured from Israeli fleschette bomb attack in Beit Hanoun, Gaza
She came in through and it wasnt clear she was injured. Suddenly a lot of blood came from her nose and she vomited. All of the family saw this her little brothers were very scared. She had just been playing in the front of the house.

Inside the Cosmetics convention, Ahava boss denies the Occupation
Etedgi argued that they were not 'occupied' territories but rather 'disputed' territories. He went on to claim that the dispute would be over when peace came and this question would be resolved because the land would all belong to Israel and there would no longer be a problem. He refused to answer any questions about the violations of rights of the people in the Occupied Territories. Etedgi stated that the factory was going to stay put.

Re-Opening the Case of Palestinian Properties in West Jerusalem
Abdelrazek`s data are based on the British Land Registry... According to them, Palestinian property in the western part of the city within the boundaries of the 1949 armistice between Israel and Jordan amounted to approximately 5,500 dunams, 33 percent of the total area. The Jewish property amounted to approximately 4,900 dunams, a bit more than 30 percent. The churches between them owned 15.2 percent of the lands. The remainder (about 21 percent ), was owned by the municipality and also accounted for roads, railroad tracks and public buildings.

VIDEO Combatants for Peace Activists Interview
On Thursday`s Riz Khan show we talk to Bassam Aramin and Elik Elhanan who are both members of Combatants for Peace, a group of former fighters who are now working for a resolution to the conflict.

1 injured, 2 detained at Al-Ma`sara anti-wall rally
A French woman was taken to hospital to have shrapnel removed from her ear after a sound bomb exploded by her head. The injury required four stitches, and she will be kept overnight to test for hearing problems. Israel's separation wall annexes thousands of dunums of agricultural land from Al-Masara and its surrounding villages for the illegal Gush Etzion settlements.

The story of a people`s resistance told in "Budrus"
The Electronic Intifada - Jimmy Johnson "Budrus is an event-based story without all but the most minimal character development, yet it still succeeds by compellingly capturing a moment. Director Julia Bacha combines conventional point-and-shoot with in situ interviews, beautiful and sometimes chaotic footage of protests, maps, graphics and a bit of expository text to piece together a lovely film exploring the evolution of the West Bank village of Budrus` resistance to Israel`s wall, and its reclaiming of its destiny."

Israel sentences popular struggle leader
Maan News Agency - "A Palestinian protest organizer detained in 2005 and put on trial was sentenced Wednesday with a second trial pending, popular committee officials in Bil`in said. "

Gaza: Women take on new kinds of work
Maan News Agency "While unemployment in Gaza remains as high as 70 percent, women have become breadwinners for families as traditional jobs in factories and construction disappear in the thick of Israel`s siege. "

An assault on democracy
Ishai Menuchin - Haaretz - As the political left has shrunk in size and influence, the organizations that promote universal values have become the only clear and systematic opposition to official human rights abuses, whether within Israel proper or in the occupied territories. Thus, HROs have become the new enemies of the Israeli far right. For it, the human-rights agenda is unacceptable and inherently "anti-Israeli," and thus it has a duty to stop it.

Israeli Border Police Demolish Water Infrastructure in Al Baqa`a Valley
CPTHebron - For Immediate Release - Israeli Border Police and hired laborers first demolished a rainwater cistern. Border Police and the workers then moved to vegetable fields and removed all of the irrigation pipes. Israeli Border Police used sound grenades to disperse the Palestinian land owners and residents who were gathered around the site of the demolitions. Medical personnel came to give examinations to two women who were suffering adverse affects from the sound grenades, one woman was taken away by ambulance.

Call for Action Against House Demolitions in Al Farisiya and Fasayil
Jordan Valley Solidarity - On 19th July 2010 the Israeli army demolished 23 homes in Al Farisiya in the Jordan Valley making 91 more Palestinians homeless. They also destroyed the shelters for over 1000 sheep that members of this bedouin community owned, and have `confiscated` the sheep and demanded payment from the farmers for their food!

IDF destroys West Bank village after declaring it military zone
Amira Hass - Haaretz - "A farmer who owns 300 sheep was told to leave in 24 hours or his herd would be confiscated."

Food co-op votes to boycott Israeli products
JTA - "The boycott approved July 15 by the board of directors of the Olympia Food Co-op covers products made in all of Israel....Olympia is the hometown of Rachel Corrie..."

Arab guilty of rape after consensual sex with Jew
Jo Adetunji and Harriet Sherwood - Guardian - "Gideon Levy, a liberal Israeli commentator, was quoted as saying: "I would like to raise only one question with the judge. What if this guy had been a Jew who pretended to be a Muslim and had sex with a Muslim woman? "Would he have been convicted of rape? The answer is: of course not.""