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For today, links to five reports: from Middle East Eye, Middle East Monitor, and the Associated Press, and to a podcast via Middle East Monitor; other published material is accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (WEST BANK 10-21-25 is HERE, or scroll down. GAZA and 9/11 TRUTH entries for this date are HERE and HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM
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Israel passes preliminary bill to annex the occupied West Bank. From Middle East Eye. Israel‘s parliament has passed a preliminary reading of a bill to annex the occupied West Bank. The bill, which will eventually require three votes in the Knesset before becoming law, passed with 25 MPs in support and 24 against. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from Middle East Monitor.
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Israeli settlers beat Palestinian farmers on video as attacks mount during West Bank olive harvest, by Jalal Bwaitel and Natalie Melzer | AP RAMALLAH, West Bank — Israeli settlers descended on Palestinian olive harvesters and activists on Sunday in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, beating them with clubs in an attack Palestinian health officials said sent at least one woman to the hospital with serious injuries. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish.
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FROM OCT. 21 Israel shuts down orphan care association in West Bank, seizes equipment. From Middle East Monitor. The Israeli army on Tuesday closed a Palestinian charity that provides care for orphans in the West Bank city of Hebron and confiscated office equipment and computers, a legal adviser said. READ MORE . . .
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Israel ‘not a protectorate’ of the U.S., Netanyahu says ahead of meeting with Vance, by Melanie Lidman | AP TEL AVIV — Israel’s prime minister toughened his stance today by declaring that his country is in charge of its own security and isn’t an American protectorate as he prepared to discuss progress on Gaza’s fragile ceasefire agreement with U.S. Vice President JD Vance. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish.
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The ceasefire illusion: Deaths, denials and diplomatic spin. Mouin Rabbani and Nasim Ahmed of Palestine This Week discuss events in Gaza and the West Bank and diplomatic developments, among other topics. Click HERE to watch and listen, and for an intro.
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