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Scoop Doco: Jihad Battle Mounts Against West's Propaganda - The United States dominion over 'psy-ops' and propaganda is no longer unchallenged. Islamic insurgents throughout the Muslim world are producing digital video clips with ever-increasing sophistication. The products of this technological revolution carry a double-edged message of 'glory' for youthful 'martyrs' and vengeance against the West. Scoop has obtained video footage - delivered via underground networks and otherwise - originating from Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Turkistan, Algeria and Palestine. The propaganda's message suggests the Islamic fight against U.S. imperialism and that of the West is spreading - becoming more sophisticated. See... Psy-Ops Countered By Islamic Digital PropagandaALSO:
Scoop Audio: Scoop's Selwyn Manning and 95bFM's Simon Pound discuss: the Scoop doco " Psy-Ops - The War On Your Opinions" and how NZ's intel agencies failed regarding Timor Leste.
Sonia Nettnin Reviews A Rachel Corrie Doco - The late Rachel Corrie (1979 2003) was articulate, straightforward and resolute. Her castigation of Israels military occupation of the Palestinian people and the Israeli Governments disregard for the safety of Israelis and Palestinians rang with clarity. Through peace activism she ascertained the facts on the ground. She called it as she saw it. See... Film Rev.: Rachel Corrie - An American Conscience Genevieve Cora Fraser Remembers A Palestinian Death - In the House of Death : Facing the North Mountain : Where Moses spoke : To God so long ago : Still inhabited : By the Good Samaritans : Ancient Jews : And the good people : Of Nablus, Palestine See... Poem: Israel Kills Innocents in House of Peace
Uri Avnery On Abu-Mazen's Hard Road Ahead
- Now its official: ''the First Democracy in the Arab World'' or ''the Second Democracy in the Middle East'' has been born. See... Uri Avnery: Who Envies Abu-Mazen?. See also... Genevieve Cora Fraser: Arabic Awakening ALSO:
- Despite Elections Charade, Israel Still Holds Keys
- Hailing New Palestinian President
- Abbas Dedicates Fatah Electoral Victory to Arafat
UN Asks Hizbollah To Show Restraint After Israel/Lebanon Border Clash
- UN Security Council members today called on the parties in southern Lebanon to live up to their commitments and to exercise restraint, after an exchange of fire over the weekend between the Israeli military and Hizbollah forces across the line of withdrawal led to the killing and wounding of United Nations peacekeepers. See... Southern Lebanon: Hizbollah & Israel Exchange FireALSO: The Election Labyrinth of East Jerusalem
Genevieve Cora Fraser Responds To Humanising Conflict Views - Though I deeply admire individuals such as Alice Rothchild, a member of a Jewish American health-care organization active in Palestine, many of the other individuals who commented in the article on humanizing the Palestine-Israeli conflict have a ... See... Response: Humanizing The Palestine-Israel Conflict. See also... Poem: Palestine On Christmas Day In Mourning
Genevieve Cora-Fraser: Arafat's Ghost Is With Us- Tonight as the world : Implodes as chaos : Unfolds Arafat : Points to a hand : In his demise : Arch-enemy : Sharon : Boasted : The hour : & method's : Unknown : Until executed : Arafat's ghost See... Poem: Arafat's Ghost Rattles Israel Caged
Uri Avnery: The Mountain and the Mouse - Ariel Sharon's speech at the ''Herzliya Conference'', an annual gathering of Israel's financial, political and academic aristocracy, proved again his wondrous ability to conjure up an imaginary world and divert attention away from the real one. See... Uri Avnery: The Mountain and the Mouse
Israeli Settlement Seizes Palestinian Farmland - On Nov. 29, Jayyous residents awoke to find yet a new disaster befalling their already beleaguered Palestinian farming village of 3,000, in the form of a massive new land confiscation. See... Israeli Settlement Seizes Palestinian Farmland
Sol Salbe On Christmas And Child Killing - This is an unusual media commentary as it conducted to a large degree ex ante rather than ex post. It involves one of the most horrific, objectionable incidents of the four-year Intifada. See... Sol Salbe: No Excuses For Killing Children and Christmas Wars: Who Stole Christmas?
Yasser Arafat Is Dead
Uri Avnery On The Likely Next Palestinian President Abu Mazen - Avnery - a longtime observer of the Palestinian political scene and participant in dialogue with many of its leading figures - analyses the dilemmas and opportunities facing Abu Mazen, a scapegoat. See... Uri Avnery: ''Give Me Some Credit!''
A Final Audience With The Late Edward Said - The film is an interview with the late Edward W. Said -- a writer, critic, political activist, teacher, scholar, and passionate spokesman for the Palestinian people. See... Sonia Nettnin: Edward Said - The Last Interview
Media 101 - Death of Rafael Eitan - Former Israeli Chief-of-Staff Rafael Eitan was swept to his death on 23 November by a giant wave as he stood on a breakwater. See... Sol Salbe: Media 101 - Death of Rafael Eitan
Ivan Eland On The Passing Of Arafat - President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon have finally gotten their wish: Yasir Arafat, their long-time nemesis, has passed from the scene. See... U.S. Policy Harms Prospects for Middle East Peace
Sonia Nettnin: The Politics of Nuclear Power - Joseph Cirincione spoke about nuclear energy, security and non-proliferation to members of the North Suburban Peace Initiative at St. Frances Xavier in Wilmette, IL on Saturday night. See... Sonia Nettnin: The Politics of Nuclear Power
Am Johal: The Arabs of Israel: Citizens without Citizenship - On the corner of Balfour and Arlozoroff in Haifa, there's a pizza joint around the corner where the deliveries are done on Vespa scooters. This part of Haifa, midway up the Carmel Mountain, gets wealthier as you go higher up the slopes. See... The Arabs of Israel: Citizens without Citizenship
IDF To Investigate 'Trophy Photos' Of Dead Palestinians - This story has even made it to sections of the Australian media. It is certainly caused a lot of feelings of revulsion in Israel. And it is indeed disgusting to find that Israeli soldiers used the body of a Palestinian whom THEY thought was innocent (and nicknamed accordingly.) as a trophy to take pictures with. See... Sol Salbe: Israel's Abu Ghraib?
Uri Avnery: Bush & Sharon - Uri Avnery - not very impressed with the new American administation - nevertheless thinks that Sharon may long back for the days when there was a scapegoat. See... Uri Avnery: Who's Next?
Ramzy Baroud: Viva La France! - By honoring President Yasser Arafat, France has honored every Palestinian man, woman and child. For this we will be forever grateful. See... Merci La France: We Will Be Forever Grateful
Am Johal: The Politics Of Time And Dispossession - When the aging Arab poets, fashionably grey haired and in their eighties, tremble and read their beautiful words on the stage of the Al Midan Theatre they are like the trunks of olive trees, testaments to the suffering. See... Am Johal: The Politics Of Time And Dispossession
Sol Salbe Finds A Salient Observation On Palestinian Leadership - This news service gets a weekly message from Gush Shalom which I usually agree with. Nevertheless Gush Shalom represents only a small section of the Israeli left and peace movement and therefore their messages are not as a rule forwarded. See... Sol Salbe: Gush Shalom On Future Leaders
Genevieve Cora Fraser: Opportunity Lost - The saddest thing about the American election of George Bush is that in the long run it will make the United States irrelevant in all matters save that we have the power to blow the world up, many times over, through our military might. See... Bush Folly, Campaign 2004 and the Middle East & Poem: Israel Carves Up the Remains of Palestine
Uri Avnery On The Death Of Arafat - ''Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth, Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him.'' This biblical injunction (Proverbs 24:17) is one of the most profound Jewish moral tenets. See... Uri Avnery: Rejoice Not...
Yasser Arafat Is Dead - Yasser Arafat was respected by Palestinians as a leader who symbolised their long search for statehood and independence, although he was regarded by many in the West as deeply flawed, Foreign Minister Phil Goff said today. See... Death of Yasser Arafat
ALSO:
- Progressive's Robson - Democratic elections best way forward in Palestine - Greens - Arafat leaves legacy of hope to his people - Aljazeera Link - Yasser Arafat Dies - UN: Arafat's Legacy Is Coexistence With Israel - Colin L. Powell - Death of Yasser Arafat - Yasser Arafat: Condolences To Palestinian Nation - Arafat Dies / Mordechai Vanunu back to prison
Sol Salbe On The Yasser Arafat Poisoning Speculation - The exact cause of Yasser Arafat's death remains a mystery. The Internet is flooded with speculation on the matter. Right-wing pro-Israeli sources are pushing the view that it was AIDS. See... Sol Salbe: Web Site Analyses: Was Arafat Poisoned?. For more misinformation around the death of the PLO leader see also.. Sol Salbe: Media 101 - An Occasional Series
MORE COMMENT ON THE DEATH OF ARAFAT:
- Genevieve Cora-Fraser - Poem: Palestine Clad in Black Awaits Rebirth
Sonia Nettnin: The Economics Of Occupation & More - Dr. Sarah Roy is one of the foremost scholars on the economy in Gaza. She is the author of over 90 publications on the Israel-Palestine conflict; and she is senior researcher at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. See... Researcher Speaks About Her Life Work in Gaza
MORE FROM SONIA NETTNIN:
- Remember These Israeli and Palestinian Children
- Nonviolence Movement in Israel and Palestine
Quiet is Not All Right: a Report on Hebron
Am Johal: The End of the Arafat Era - As Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat lies on his deathbed in a Paris hospital, in a coma, lurched in that place between life and death, there is much cause for sober reflection in the Israeli and Palestinian camps. See... Am Johal: The End of the Arafat Era
Genevieve Cora Fraser Goes Mano a Mano With The Truth Provider - Dear friends, Here is another shameful communication I received from Genevieve Cora Fraser, who keeps pushing the Arab/Palestinian cause, using such Israeli bigots as Gideon Levy as her sources of false information. See... The Truth Provider Vs. Genevieve Cora Fraser
Ramzy Baroud: Life Without Arafat - If Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's illness and unexpected departure to France represents the end of an era, as some rashly noted, it is because the absence of Arafat, even as a living symbol, is a matter of great consequence. See... Ramzy Baroud: Life Without Arafat
Uri Avnery Surveys The Arafat Years - I remember standing on the roof of a warehouse near Beirut harbor and observing the armed and uniformed PLO fighters, headed by Yasser Arafat, getting on the ships that took them westwards. See... Uri Avnery: The Importance Of Being ''Irrelevant''
Female Foreign Workers In Israel Given Hobson's Choice - In Israel, a new procedure compels legal female foreign workers who have babies to make a choice. If they are unemployed they have to decide three months after the birth whether to leave the country or not. The only way they can stay is by sending the child to be cared for by relatives abroad. See... Women Workers May Be Forced To Send Babies Abroad
UN Head Applauds Israel Gaza Pullout Decision - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today congratulated Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel on the historic vote in the Knesset, which produced a clear majority in favour of the Israeli leader's initiative to withdraw from Gaza. See... Annan Congratulates Sharon Over Gaza Pullout Vote
ALSO: Annan Gives Full Backing To Helping Palestinians
Ramzy Baroud: Wake Up Arab World!! - I fail to come across a region in greater need of self-reflection and internal transformation than the Arab world. Yet it is as if the opposite is true. No Arab country exempt, Arab nations, led by their governments and intellectuals, continue to succumb to a prevailing state of unresponsiveness despite an urgent need for an awesome awakening. See... Ramzy Baroud: The Stifling Absence of Arab Voice
Genevieve Cora Fraser: Poem For Palestine - As the Palestinian world folds : Into a chasm of despair and destruction : An Israeli soldier draws his gun : To kill shots fired in rapid succession : Syncopate with the dull drone and thud : Of a bulldozer plowing fields of hate See... Poem: Zionist Liquidation Squads Melt Down
Am Johal On The Decline Of American Discourse - For the two years following September 11th, the Western public was inundated with propaganda to such a vociferous degree that to be a critical voice was to be heretical and be considered a traitor - we citizens became passive consumers lodged in a 'Zombie State'. See... Am Johal: The Zombie State
Three Jerusalem Women On A Truth Tour Of The US - In a promotion-for-peace tour titled, Three Women, Three Faiths, One Shared Vision, the speakers talked about their life experiences with occupation, not prevalent in U.S. mainstream media. See... Jerusalem Women Promote Peace on U.S. Tour
Genevieve Cora Fraser Attempts To Track Down Fadi Madi - Like a carrier pigeon landing on my windowsill, Fadi Madi suddenly appeared in my in-box bearing an urgent message with the subject heading: ''Struggle with Fadi Madi''. See... Chickens Granted More Rights than Arabs In Israel
Damian Clarke: Palestinian Activists Reunited In London - The European Social Forum (ESF) came to London over the weekend. It all kicked off on Thursday night for me when three Swedish girls arrived at my flat. One of them was with me in Palestine, the other two are her friends who had also been to Palestine ... See... Update On Palestine: Kia Ora Scoop People
Ramzy Baroud: Gaza After The Onslaught - A 17-day Israeli onslaught in northern Gaza left in its wake nearly 140 dead, one-third of them children. The newest tragedy to visit the impoverished strip, was neither the first, nor will it be the last. See... One Hundred Forty Funerals, & The Rest Is History
Uri Avnery: A Window To Ariel Sharon's Mind - What really is important is not what he said or why he said it, but the world-view that animates him. By now, everybody has had a go at analyzing the interview with Dov (''Dubby'') Weisglass, Ariel Sharon's most intimate confidant. See... Uri Avnery: Thank You, Dubby
Film Review: Marziyeh Meshkinis ''Stray Dogs.'' - The 40th Annual Chicago International Film Festival showed Marziyeh Meshkinis ''Stray Dogs.'' See... Sonia Nettnin Film Review: Stray Dogs
School Girl Shot By Israel While Studying Dies - Just two months shy of her tenth birthday, Ghadeer Jaber Mokheimer died today of injuries sustained when, sitting in a United Nations school, she was hit by gunfire from an Israeli military position on the outskirts of Khan Younis camp. See... Palestinian Girl Shot While At School Dies
ALSO:
Israel Withdraws Claim Rocket Was In UN Ambulance - Palestine Eyewitness: Attack On Gaza
Israeli Soldiers Shoot Another Girl At UN Gaza School - Two separate official investigations are under way into the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old girl in Gaza by the Israeli army after soldiers testified that their company commander "emptied his magazine" at her after she had been shot and was presumed ... See... Army chief 'emptied his magazine' at girl in Gaza
ALSO:
- UN - 11 Year-Old Girl Shot While Studying At UN School
- UN - Gaza: Annan Laments Another Girl Shot By Israel
- Other Israel - Blood, tears and olive harvest & untold struggles
- ISM - Old Palestinian Farmer Arrested Near Nablus
Uri Avnery Explains The Deviousness Of Sharonist Disengagement - When Ariel Sharon announced his plan for ''unilateral disengagement'', the media reported that the Peace Now movement was preparing a big public campaign in support. The Prime Ministers office asked them to desist, fearing that such a campaign would cause the extreme right to oppose it. See... Uri Avnery: Dont Believe A Word
Genevieve Cora Fraser Poem: American Apache - : Helicopter scouts : Hovered over RED : Pools oozing : Out of WHITE : Muscle filleted : Beneath deep : BLUE skies : Surveillance drones : Unmanned : Sought body heat See... Palestinian Penance for Israeli & American Sins
Palestinian Film Review - Yoav Shamirs ''Checkpoint.'' - The 40th Annual Chicago International Film Festival hosted a screening of Yoav Shamirs ''Checkpoint.'' See... Sonia Nettnin Film Review: Checkpoint
Am Johal: The Obstacles To Peace In The Holy Land - Recently, Dov Weisglass, the Prime Minister Sharon's bureau chief said, ''The significance of our disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process. It supplies the formaldehyde necessary so there is no political process with the Palestinians effectively this whole package called a Palestinian state has been removed indefinitely from our agenda.'' See... Am Johal: Sharon and Arafat Should Step Aside
Ramzy Baroud: If The Shoes Were On The Other Feet - One can only imagine the utter outrage that would engage world leaders and media if a series of Palestinian bombings rocked an Israeli town, spontaneously, and in less than four days killed 60 people and wounded hundreds, mostly innocent civilians. See... Ramzy Baroud: Anatomy Of Palestinian Outrage
MORE:
- Genevieve Cora Fraser - Israel Owns the Earth - Palestine Owns the Moon
Congratulations For Ariel Sharon - This News Service rarely forwards Gush Shalom messages but this one has got such an important and clear message that I am sending it to at least some of you. It's not every day that Israel most militant peace organisation congratulates Prime Minister Ariel Sharon... See... Translation: Gush-Shalom Congratulates Sharon
The Intifada Three Years On - The Al Aqsa Intifada is a disaster for Israelis and Palestinians as it hits its fourth year with no significant advances, no real agreement in sight or an end to the violence. See... Am Johal: It's The Occupation, Stupid!
MORE:
- Israeli Governance Destroys Palestine's Children
- Poem: Yom Kippur Observed in Palestine
Intifada Anniversary Sees Israel Intensify Its Occupation - JENIN, Palestine, September28, 2004 (IPC+ Agencies)-- The Israeli occupying forces (IOF) killed on Tuesday a Palestinian resident in the West Bank City of Jenin and demolished a number of houses in southern Gaza City. See... Israel Troops Storm Into Jenin
ALSO: Four Years on Israel's Sharon Perpetuates Intifada
Quartet Wakes Up And Demands Israel Meet Road Map Obligations - GAZA (IPC + Agencies) -- The international Quartet Committee for peace in the Middle East (United Nations, United States, European Union, Russia) called yesterday on Israel to meet its obligations stipulated in the Road Map peace blueprint, Palestine ... See... Quartet Demands Israel Meet Road Map Obligations
ALSO: Israel Continues To Violates Lebanese Airspace - Audio: The IMEMC Weekly Report has been Released
Am Johal: The Diplomat Of Sheikh Jarrah - In the Jerusalem Hotel in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem near Damascus Gate in the Old City you can hear the music of the oud wafting through the air on Friday and Saturday nights for its crowd of hotel guests and regulars. See... Am Johal: The Diplomat Of Sheikh Jarrah
Genevieve Cora-Fraser: Palestine Lost - Israeli Commandoes : Raided the Mother : Theresa Society : A five AM wake : Up shot fear : Into frail elders : Orphaned children : Terrified nuns : An elderly priest : Held by snarling : Dogs and IDF See... Poem: Israel Stole Our Land, Our Country, Our Lives
Am Johal: Assessing The Israeli Left - A friend once remarked that human rights is too important a matter to be left to politics. But the Left is dead in Israel. And if you hold to the observation that social change related to human rights in Israel will be initiated by the Left, this is a worrisome trend. See... Am Johal: Breaking the Impasse
Feature: Mordechai Vanunu Circa. 2004 - If East Jerusalem had an unofficial mayor, it would be nuclear whistle blower Mordechai Vanunu. See... Guest Opinion: Am Johal - The Vanunu Epilogue
Poem: Palestine If Bush Is Re-elected - Four more years : Under a Bush : Sponsored : And funded : Peace negotiation : Promises more Israeli : Peace barbs : Experimental rockets : Gasses, bullets : Exploding Palestinians : Ripped to shreds : By Israeli flachette See... Poem: Four More Years in a Bush Whacked Palestine?
Uri Avnery: Considering Two Manifestos - Two shocking manifestos were published this week. Both call for comment. One of them declares that dismantling the settlements in the Gaza Strip is a ''crime against humanity''. See... Uri Avnery: "God Wills It!"
GAZA: UN Condemns Israels Continued Killing Of Palestinians - The top United Nations envoy for the Middle East today condemned the killing of Palestinian civilians and the wounding of many more in Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip over the last two days and called on the Government of Israel to avoid using ... See... UN Envoy Condemns Israel's Killing Of Palestinians
ALSO: UN Urges Israel Stop Violating Lebanese Air Space
Physician Banned From Inspecting Detention Centre
Ramzy Baroud: The Arab World Rallies To Free French Hostages - I wouldve suggested a hint of subtle racism and unconcealed bias in the Chicago Sun-Times article, ''Arabs express rare outrage at kidnapping of French journalists.'' (Sep. 1) But I didnt, for the articles assessment was disturbingly true. See... Ramzy Baroud: Racist Discourse in Hostage Butchery
Israel's Intelligence Activity In The United States - For those who believe AIPAC and Israel are at the root of propelling the United States into the misguided Iraq War and subsequent occupation, the Israel spy case involving classified information on Iran is serving as the proverbial string entwining the various conflicts in the Middle East. See... G. Cora Fraser: Do I Spy an Israeli Spy in AIPAC?
Chomsky And Cohen Debate Palestine Apologetics - This is a reply to an article by Noah Cohen, which in turn is a response to an interview Chomsky gave with Shalom and Podur several months ago. See... Advocacy And Realism: A Reply To Noah Cohen and see Noah Cohen: Advocacy For What And For Whom?
Sharon's Post Retreat Plan Called A "War Crime" By His AG - Qalqilya is on the West Bank not the Gaza strip. In other words if the Palestinian fire Qassem rockets at the people of Sderot (Total fatalities in last two years two) then Israel can use the IDF to shell the people of Gaza. See... Israeli AG: Sharon Post-Retreat Plan A "War Crime"
Ramzy Baroud Joins Palestinian Prisoners Hunger Strike - Today I will fast in solidarity with 2,800 Palestinian political prisoners currently carrying out a hunger strike in 10 Israeli jails. See... Ramzy Baroud: My Own Hunger Strike. See also... Poem: Palestinian Prisoners Brave On
Translated From Hebrew: In The Mirror Of History - The Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike seems to have already dropped out of the headlines. But it is early days yet and as Israeli journalist Yehuda Litani points out below, the outcomes of such strikes are not easily predictable. See... Yehuda Litani: In The Mirror Of History. See also Damian Clarke's Update From Palestine - 3
A Critique Of Left Apologetics Regarding Palestine - Its particularly interesting in the case of Palestine to see where US intellectuals and progressives decide that its necessary to be ''realistic'' and where ''principled''; where they choose to accept more or less the general media consensus about ''the boundaries of acceptable discourse'' and where they reject it. See... Chomsky & Apologetics For Injustice In Palestine
Kiwi Activist Gets First Hand Look At Palestinian Life - Damian Clarke is a 31 year old from Miramar in Wellington, NZ and is currently in Palestine under training with the International Solidarity Movement - a group of internationalists campaigning for peace in the Middle East. Damian is writing to. See... Damian Clarke's Update From Palestine - 2 and See... Damian Clarke's Update From Palestine - 3 .
Poem For The Middle East - In Syria-Palestine : Flared beakers : Poured forth : A Pilgrims hope : Awaiting travelers : Journeying to Jerusalem : Before Mohammad : Rose to stand : Make his point. See... Poem: A Pilgrim's Peace in the Middle East
Israel Soldiers Swoop On UNRWA School - *Israeli Army Round up of 1000 Men of Askar Refugee Camp in Nablus *Israeli Soldiers Beat Pregnant Woman; Threaten Dog Attacks *Swedish National Detained. See... Mass Detention in UNRWA School
ALSO:Annan Urges Israel To Cease Settlement Expansion - Physicians Try To End Palestinian Hunger Strike
A Kiwi Activist Reports In From Palestine - Damian Clarke, a 31 year old from Miramar in Wellington New Zealand, has arrived in Palestine to be trained as an activist with International Solidarity Movement - a group campaigning for peace in the Middle East. This is his first report to Scoop. See... NZer Arrives In Palestine To Train As Activist
Manuel Valenzuela Addresses The Palestinian Conflict - Here we are, living in the first decade of the 21st century, and still the violent animal in the human condition exists, thriving inside our carnal passions and still primitive mammalian brains, oozing out of humanity to release the demons of evil ... See... Manuel Valenzuela: The Untermensch Syndrome
Uri Avnery: A Very One-Sided War - "For all I care, they can starve to death!" announced Tzahi Hanegbi, after Palestinian prisoners declared an open-ended hunger strike against prison conditions. Thus the Minister for Internal Security added another memorable phrase to the lexicon of the ... See... Uri Avnery: A Very One-Sided War
Memorial Service in Hebron Queried - A few questions arising from an invitation to a "State" memorial service that the Jewish settlement in Hebron is conducting for the victims of the 1929 Arab riots - See... Shulamit Aloni: An Invitation To Hebron
Genevieve Cora Fraser Reports On Escalating Israeli Offensive - Armed to the teeth by the American Congress, Israel once again has escalated the occupation into a full-scale military offensive against the Palestinian population. See... Israel Escalates Palestine Military Offensive
Translation: Haaretz On Ending Occupations - While many people who were opposed to the war on Iraq are aware of most of the lies that formed the basis of the war there's one myth that has not been totally discredited yet. That is the myth of the handover. See... Haaretz Translation: How To Exit As An Occupier
Film Review: ''Women in Struggle'' - Any Palestinian who involves themselves in the national struggle for independence takes a risk whether their role is non-violent or an act of resistance against the brutality of the nearly four decades old Israeli occupation. See... World Premier of ''Women in Struggle'' . See also... Haiku: Song for Palestine
Israel's Gunships Attack Refugee Camps In Gaza
The News From Rafah Today Is Bleak- As Haaretz.com polls the world Jewry community on whether or not the bonds to Israel are breaking, Beit Hanoun City in the Gaza Strip has been virtually wiped out by the country to which world Jewry holds allegiance.
See... Palestinian Farming Community Wiped From The Map
Anyone's Attitude To Israel May Cause Problems For Peace - "When John is president, we will listen to the wisdom of the September 11th Commission. We will build and lead strong alliances and safeguard and secure weapons of mass destruction. We will strengthen our homeland security and protect our ports, safeguard our chemical plants, and support our firefighters, police officers and EMT's. We will always use our military might to keep the American people safe."- John Edwards At The DNC. See... 'Anyone But Bush' - A Look At Anyone
IDF Prepares For Armageddon - The IDF Home Command will start to distribute an antidote to radiation in areas close to the Nuclear Research Center in Dimona on Sunday. See... Israeli Army To Distribute Radiation Antidote
MORE NEWS FROM ISRAEL:
- Shulamit Aloni Translation: Pre-Messianic Pangs
- Uri Avnery: F.A.Q. Re Sharon's Disengagement Plan
Genevieve Cora Fraser: Kerry And The Future Of The Middle East - Following the Sunday afternoon protest march in Boston prior to the Democratic Convention, I confided to a Pro-Palestinian activist who had identified himself as Jewish when we first met that I am supporting John Kerry as President. See... Would John Kerry As President Change History?
Ramzy Baroud: Critical Phase For The Intifada - In an oversimplified gesture of a defused crisis, Palestinian Authority President, Yasser Arafat and his Prime Minister, Ahmed Qurei kissed, hugged and raised victory signs. See... Palestinian Uprising Enduring Most Critical Phase
Maps Used To Brainwash Israelis About Palestine - Early one morning about a month ago I was awakened from a sound sleep by the phone ringing. Quite groggy, I listened to the voice of a stranger on the other end who identified herself and then insisted that I take down her address and phone number. See... Maps Used To Brainwash Israelis About Palestine
Chomsky On The Sharon 'Disengagement Plan' - In this article Noam Chomsky clarifies his position about Sharon's ''disengagement plan'', as well as the Geneva Initiative, binationalism and what should be the aim of activists in the short term. See... Noam Chomsky: The Rules Of Disengagement
Poem: A Stateless Palestinian Escapes Injustice - Farouk : The stateless : Palestinian : Was set free : In the City : Of Brotherly Love : Philadelphia : The essence of his spirit : Transcended the struggle : As he spoke his voice rose : Away from the pain : Of detention the Iron Machine : Of Injustice ... See... Stateless Palestinian Escapes Machine of Injustice
Genevieve Cora Fraser: Palestine's Universities Under Siege - Higher Education in Palestine is increasingly under siege from Israeli death squad attacks on the lives and well being of professors and students to Israel's refusal to grant work visas to instructors as well as from a variety of other hardships such as the deterioration of the Palestinian economy and the inability of students to access their schools due to Israeli closures, roadblocks and the Racist Apartheid Wall. See... Palestinian Universities Post Urgent Appeal
Sonia Nettnin: Frontiers Of Dreams And Fears - In the film, Frontiers Of Dreams And Fears, director Mai Masri explores the lives of two, teenage girls who become close friends. See... Film Review: Frontiers of Dreams and Fears
See... Film Review: Frontiers of Dreams and Fears
Poem: Ensnared in A Israeli Death Trap - Dedicated to the memory of Palestinian American Dr. Kahled Salah and his son 16 year old Mohammed who were murdered in cold blood in their Nablus home by Israeli soldiers. See... Palestinian Family Ensnared in Israeli Death Trap
People Who Believe There Is No Palestine - Early one morning about a month ago I was awakened from a sound sleep by the phone ringing. Quite groggy, I listened to the voice of a stranger on the other end who identified herself and then insisted that I take down her address and phone number. See... Spatial Deception Used to Brainwash Israelis
Between The Lines: Justice Against The Wall - 2 Decisions Find Israel's Security Wall Violates Rights of Palestinians Interview with John Quigley, professor of law at Ohio State University conducted by Melinda Tuhus See... 2 Decisions Find Israel's Wall Violates Rights
Genevieve Cora Fraser: Freedom & Academe - Early on the international conference of academics and intellectuals, students and NGOs (non-governmental organizations) at the University of Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium threatened to come apart at the seams. See... The Liberation of Palestine from Occupation
Israel Attacks UN Food Convoy In Gaza - The top United Nations relief official for Palestinian refugees was forced to take cover today when part of a UN aid convoy that had delivered food to 20,000 Gaza Strip residents besieged by Israel came under fire, apparently from an Israeli armoured ... See... Israel Forces Attack UN Relief Convoy in Gaza
ALSO: UN Middle East Envoy Urges Israel/PNA Peace Talks
Israel Invades On Eve Of UN Assembly Urgent Meeting - HEBRON, Palestine - Israeli occupying forces (IOF) invaded yesterday night the West Bank City of Hebron, storming its various neighbourhoods with tanks and armoured vehicles, while hundreds of Israeli soldiers were reportedly deployed in its streets. See... Israeli Troops Invade Hebron, Attack Other Towns
ALSO: IOF kills two Palestinians in Jenin and Bethlehem - Emergency UN Session On Israeli Wall Friday - Clashes Persist But Gaza Pullout Could Spark Peace - Israel/Occupied Territories: Families torn apart - UN Condemns Latest Israel Killing Of Palestinians
Israel Re-Invades Hebron And West Bank Cities
Victory At Last For Wall Opponents In Israel/OT - In the silence of the courtroom, there was an audible gasp of surprise and shock when Supreme Justice Aharon Barak, reading the courts decision, reached the words: ''The military commander did not use his discretion in a proportional way, as required.'' See... Uri Avnery: Justice, Gas and Tears
US Congress Overwhelmingly Backs Middle East Land Grab - On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives, in an overwhelming bipartisan vote, endorsed right-wing Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon's efforts to colonize and annex large sections of the Palestinian West Bank, seized by Israel in the June 1967 war. See... US Congress Endorses Sharons Annexation Plans
Poem: Anatomy of Israeli-Zionist Racism Plotting - Bread is cheap and water : Makes tea a Palestinian : Prison life diet provided : By Israel's good : Neighbor Policy : Gets down to the bare : Bones good fences : Make good neighbors See... Anatomy of Israeli-Zionist Racism Plotting
Sonia Nettnin At The Chicago Palestine Film Festival - The Palestinian people of Qaqiliya enter and exit the city through a gate. Israeli soldiers lock it with a key. The gate is part of the concrete wall. See... Sonia Nettnin: Film Review - Route 181 (Part III) (Part II) and (Part I)
More Palestine Film Reviews:
- Sonia Nettnin: Film Review - Rachel's War
- Sonia Nettnin: Review - Salt Of The Earth
- Sonia Nettnin: Film Review - A Stone's Throw Away
- Sonia Nettnin: Film Review - Siege
- Sonia Nettnin Review: Freedom I Have Lost.
- Sonia Nettnin: Film Review - Keys
- Review: Elias Chacour - Prophet in His Own Country
- Sonia Nettnin: To Create Something Out of Nothing
Uri Avnery Considers Ariel Sharon's "Revised Disengagement Plan" - Two weeks ago, the international community made a shocking declaration. Giving in to a demand by George Bush, the ''Quartet'' accepted the ''Revised Disengagement Plan'' of Ariel Sharon. This means that the United Nations, the European Union, the Russian Federation and the United States confirmed this document. I wonder if any one of the honorable diplomats has read the document with their own eyes. See... Uri Avnery: Irreversible Mental Damage
Uri Avnery: The West Bank Developing Into Crazy Quilt - I thought it was terrible. I was wrong. It is far, far worse! - These words sum up my feelings at that moment. I was standing on a hill overlooking the infamous Kalandia checkpoint. See... Uri Avnery: The Nightmare Comes True
Poem: Promised Land Held Captive by False Prophets - A pre-emptive strike : On the land of the Nile : Presaged the beginning : Of the end of Palestinian : Freedom on the 6th day : Of the 6th Month : During the 6 Day War : Israel encircled : Attacking Semite : Jerusalem a bloody battle : On Ammunition Hill See... Genevieve Cora Fraser: Promised Land Held Captive. See also... Sonia Nettnin: Film Review - Ford Transit
Scoop Film Review:JIHAD! - The Chicago Palestine Film Festival hosted the world premiere of JIHAD! at the Gene Siskel Film Center on Saturday. Directed by Muhammed Rum, the Topiary Productions film is an individual and global exploration of the word and its meaning. See... Sonia Nettnin: Film Review and Analysis of JIHAD!. See also... Genevieve Cora Fraser: Truth Exposed In Video
Palestine's Children And Terrorists - 2 Film Reviews
- The film ARNAS CHILDREN, opened the third annual Chicago Palestine Film Festival at the Gene Siskel Film Center on Friday. See... Sonia Nettnin: Film Review - Arna's Children
- Shortly after Peter Speetjens' birth in a small town in the south of The Netherlands, the world changed. Israel occupied Palestine following the 6 Day War. See... Review: Stark Portrait of Sabra & Shatila & Sharon
An Artist Who Paints The Horror Of War- Shehla Rehman's touching paintings on today's world of terror speak for themselves. In her distinctive artistic span of life Shehla has already admired unfathomable art lovers through the exhibitions of her precious work in many countries. See... Shehla Rehman - An Artist Of Distinct Spirit
Israel Assassinates Second Hamas Leader
Lebanon/Israel: Rockets And Air-Strike Attacks Exchanged - The United Nations envoy for southern Lebanon said today he was concerned by a series of Lebanese rocket attacks yesterday morning and then the retaliatory overflights and aircraft fire by Israeli forces. See... Lebanese Rocket, Israel Air Attacks Concern UN
ALSO: UN Pledges Never To Desert Palestinian Refugees - Petition to Israel High Court: Stop Prisoner Abuse - Girls Block Bulldozers in Az Zawiya - Residents of Bizzariya reclaim freedom of movement - Israel Tightens Grip On West Bank
IDF Accused Of Using Ambulances For Troop Insertion - This is one of those occasions where it pays to read the original in Hebrew. It is not only Haaretz that occasionally softens a story for international consumption. - "The IDF used ambulances to smuggle in fighters during operation 'Defensive Shield' in 2002", claims Zohar Shapira, one of the initiators of the elite 'Sayeret Matkal' unit refuseniks' letter." See... Soldier Claims IDF Smuggled Troops In Ambulances. See also... A Letter From Serbia - Translation From Hebrew and Israeli Beasts of Prey Ravage Again & Again
Ramzy Baroud: Rafah, Jenin, Khan Yunis, Zeitun - Foreign sounding names of so distanced and disturbing a reality. All that we know of them is what media has selectively determined to impart, if we are interested to hear the story. See... Ramzy Baroud: Celebrating Life In Rafah
Genevieve Cora Fraser: She Hid Her Sorrow - A tribute to Palestinian artist Marie Jabaji Tamari, world renowned for her floral tapestries, photographed and published by Turbo Design and the Institute for Jerusalem Studies in "Spring is Here, Embroidered Flowers of the Palestinian Spring," text by Tania Tamari Nasir. See... Poem: Cloaked in Garments of a Palestinian Spring
Jack Straw Cites Israel Assassinations As Illegal - LONDON -- The British Foreign Minster, Jack Straw, criticized on Saturday the continued Israeli assassination policy and the Apartheid Wall construction in the occupied Palestinian territories, regarding such Israeli practices as illegal. See... British FM: Israels Assassination Policy Illegal
ALSO: Israel Assassinates Two Palestinians in Gaza
- Middle East Media Centre Audio Reports - Photo stories on Palestine/ Articles about Budrus
Israel Continues Invasion Of Palestine Territories - NABLUS, Palestine -- The Israeli occupying forces (IOF) started a wide offensive on the city of Nablus and its suburbs, in which two homes were blown up while troops occupied houses and public buildings there. See... IOF Onslaught Turns to Nablus
ALSO: Turkey is Latest Critic of Israels Terrorism - IOF Invades Deir El Balah, Demolishes Houses - Israel: British journalist arrested
Genevieve Cora Fraser: Sue Israel - Peering through a tank : Shelled portal : The young Semite : Boy searched : For the remains : Of his life : Scattered : Amid the ruins : Of a Rafah : Neighborhood : A ragged archway See... Sue Israel for Pain, Suffering, and Wrongful Death
Latest Scoop News And Views From The Terra Sancta - The Palestine Childrens Relief Fund established itself during the first intifada (uprising). The organization formed in response to the urgent needs of Palestinian children caught in the gunfire of the Israel-Palestine conflict. See... Throughout Conflict, Relief Organization Responds
MORE:
- Genevieve Cora Fraser: Israeli Arms Embargo Urged
- Lapid: Rafah Images Reminiscent Of Holocaust
- Israeli State Terrorism Goosesteps on Palestine
- Chuckman Cartoon: Sharon & The Rafah Tunnels
- Guest Opinion - Prisoner Torture Scam Is The Tipping Point In Iraq
UN Official Expresses Horror At Israel's Operation Rainbow - A United Nations human rights expert has expressed his "horror" at the ongoing Israeli military action in Gaza, where some 30 Palestinian have been killed, nearly 200 homes have been destroyed and 2,200 people left without shelter since the beginning of May. See... Human Rights Expert Voices Horror At Gaza Action
MORE:
- Joint Statement - Urgent Petition to the Supreme Court on Rafah
- Physicians - Rights Violations in Rafah- Update, 20 May Evening
- ISM - ISM: Please Don't Stay Silent - Rafah Action
- Gush Shalom - 8 Arrested, 3 To Hospital After Rafah Protest
Israel Kills Civilians In Rafah Operation - Condemned By UNSC - Concerned by the recent demolition of homes in the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, the United Nations Security Council today called on Israel to respect its obligations under international humanitarian law and insisted on its obligation not to destroy homes contrary to that law. See... UNSC Calls On Israel to Stop Demolition Of Homes
MORE:
- UN - Envoy 'Alarmed' By Ongoing Israeli Military Op.
- UN - Killing Of Palestinian Demonstrators In Gaza
- Physicians - PHR-Israel: Update on Rafah
- ISM - Missiles Fired At Civilian Demonstration In Rafah
- ISM --Demonstration In Solidarity With Rafah In Biddu
- UNICEF - UNICEF calls for the protection of Rafah children
Sonia Nettnin: Its Raining Olives In Palestine - Desert land : never saw : downpour : olives. Trees : razed by bulldozers : fall : thud the ground, : so roots wombs : scorch in : heat. A fruit : shower of See... Sonia Nettnin Poem: It's Raining Olives
Amnesty Condemns Israel's House Destruction In Gaza - Israel's unjustified destruction of thousands of Palestinian and Arab Israeli homes as well as vast areas of agricultural land has reached an unprecedented level and must stop immediately, Amnesty International said today. See... Israel & OT: Evictions And Demolitions Must Stop
MORE:
- Gush Shalom - Soldiers Stop! Black Flag Of War Crime Is Flying
- ISM - ISM ACTION ALERT: Rafah - TAKE ACTION
- ISM - Palestinian Blood Is Not Cheap
- PHRI - Medical Rights Being Violated in Gaza Strip
- Peacemaker Teams - Hebron Urgent Action: Entry Of Greg Rollins
- UN - Annan Calls On Israel To Halt Destruction Of Homes
Genevieve Cora Fraser: Israel's Right To Be - In 1922 the League of Nations entrusted Britain with a mandate over Palestine in response to the 1917 defeat of the Turks by British forces and the subsequent collapse of the Ottoman Empire. See... Conditions for Israel's Legitimacy Not Yet Met
Genevieve Cora Fraser: Wrecking The Peace - Panic fueled the exodus : Israeli offensive Ministers : Pronounced regrets : Hardships unavoidable : Thousands fled : Into the white tented : City as Israel's Mad Dogs : Of War tore into terrified : Crowds Rafah refugees : Re-assaulted made homeless See... Poem: Israel Swings Wrecking Ball at Peace. See also... Rafah Roughed Up and Readied for Sacrifice
Hanan Ashrawi Comes To Boston - Sign waving Zionist protesters congregated outside the Cathedral at St. Paul's on Tremont Street, Boston. They came to harass supporters of Dr. Hanan Mikhail Ashrawi, renowned Palestinian human rights activist and winner of numerous international peace, human rights and democracy awards. See... Palestinian Peacemaker Hanan Ashrawi Comes to Town. See also See... Sonia Nettnin: Al-Nakba - The Catastrophe (Part 1)
Arafat Cautions Bush Over Scuttling Roadmap - The Palestinian Leadership on Saturday called on Washington to reconsider its full support for the Israeli Prime Minister Sharons unilateral plans and accused the US President of effectively torpedoing the Quartet-drafted and UN-adopted roadmap See... PLO Urges Bush to Reconsider Torpedoing Roadmap
Two Poems Concerning The Terra Sancta - It is late the moon glows : Warmly among the stars : A Palestinian man sits quietly : Sipping tea pouring seeds : Through his fingers : Sifting through thoughts : Calculates planting : Hope for a season : Of peace See... Poem: Palestinian Spring in the Mist of Time and Rima Anabtawi: Water Off My Throat
UN Votes 140 to 6 For Palestinian Sovereignty - The 191-member United Nations General Assembly today overwhelmingly affirmed the need to enable the Palestinian people "to exercise sovereignty and to achieve independence in their State, Palestine." See... UN Gen Assembly Palestinians Right To Sovereignty
ALSO: Israel announces it still plans to confiscate land
Quartet Positive Over Israel Gaza Withdrawal Plan - Meeting today at United Nations Headquarters in New York, the so-called Quartet issued a positive reaction to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw all Israeli settlements from Gaza and parts of the West Bank, calling it a "rare moment ... See... UN Meeting: Quartet Reacts To Israel's Gaza Plan
EARLIER: Annan Meets Quartet On Search Middle East Peace - Israel: AI condemns murder of woman and daughters - GUSH SHALOM Sharons a Wounded Animal
Finkelstein On The Realities Of ME Disagreement - Norman G. Finkelstein spoke about the Israel-Palestine conflict in Oak Park, IL. He was the final speaker in Voices of Conscience and Dissent: Important Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, a community education and dialog series. See... Vanguard Demystifies Israel-Palestine Conflict
Oh, Say Can You See A Machiavellian Dominion- As American troops moved from Baghdad to bases near the Najaf home to the Shrine of Ali, one of the most sacred pilgrimage sites for Shiite Muslims, Iraq's US - selected Governing Council approved a new flag for the country. See... US-Israeli Machiavellian Dominion In Arab World
Buy Palestinian Olive Oil And Help Palestine's Children - If you are interested in helping to improve the living standards of the children of Palestine in the refugee camps inside Palestine, please support the efforts of the Palestine Children's Welfare Fund through purchases such as extra virgin olive oil, soaps, embroidery and other items. See... Help The Palestine Children's Welfare Fund
Between The Lines: Bush And The West Bank Settlements - Bush Endorses Israel's Plan to Make West Bank Settlements Permanent; Lights Middle East Fuse - Interview with Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine, conducted by Scott Harris See... Bush Endorses Israel Plan On West Bank Settlements
Israeli Forces Kill More Children - [Jenin] In the Southwest neighborhood of Jenin, near the Municipality, Israeli special forces assassinated Kamal Toubasi and Said Hardan as they were driving their car. A third casualty, 13 year-old Mohamed Azzouka was killed during the invasion as he was near the scene. See Jenin: IOF Assassinated Two & Shot Dead Young Boy
Translated From Hebrew: Like The Germans We Don't Want To Know - Former Meretz Leader Shulamit Aloni has established a reputation for her critique of modern Israeli society. She has also been described as the Grand old Lady of the Israeli peace movement. See... Sol Salbe: Like The Germans We Don't Want To Know
Ramzy Baroud: Israel's Latest Mistake - Israels assassination of Hamas leader Abdelaziz Al-Rantissi on April 17 is a continuation of a costly mistake. See... Assassination Policy Is a Strategic Folly
Genevieve Cora Fraser: An Agonized Chant Of The Dead - Dressed in his best : The little boy sat : Upright and proud : Hands folded on his lap : On the cracked : Front step of his home : His mother : Screamed : To come back in .See... Poem: Israel Has a Right to Defend Itself
UN Head Cites Israel Responsibility For Dead Children - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced alarm at the deadly consequences of a two-day Israeli incursion into the northern Gaza Strip, noting that there were reportedly at least 10 civilians, including five children under the age of 15, among the Palestinian dead See... Deadly Consequences Of Israeli Incursion Into Gaza
ALSO: Kerry Indistinguishable From Bush On Israel
Genevieve Cora Fraser: Who's Leading Who In The ME? - The myth of America as an honest broker in the supposed Palestinian-Israeli peace process has been completely shattered. See... Is America A Servant To The Will Of Israel?. See also a poem... Genevieve Cora Fraser: Rantisi Remembered
Chuckman: Evil In Jerusalem - It did appear that that mountainous bulk of murder and corruption, Ariel Sharon, was about to leave politics. Much as with Al Capone, authorities only caught up with him through a trail of crooked money. See... John Chuckman: Evil Does Often Triumph
MORE ON ISRAEL:
- Genevieve Cora Fraser - Al-Awda -Palestinians Uphold Their Right to Return
Palestine In Uproar After Israel Assassinates Hamas Leader Rantisi - OCCUPIED TERRITORIES, Palestine - - In protest against the Israeli terrorist attack Saturday evening that resulted in the death of Hamas leader in Gaza Dr. Abdel Aziz Al Rantisi along with his two bodyguards, thousands of Palestinians swept across the streets of the West Bank city Nablus See... Demonstrations Sweep Across Palestinian Cities
ALSO:
Ramallah: Israeli Troops Take it Out on Children - 100,000s in Al Rantisi Funeral Procession - Hamas Keeps Name of New Gaza Leader Secret - Body-count: Israel Incursions And Killings In PNA Territories - Palestinian Shot With Live Round Anti-Wall Protest - Child Used as Human Shield after Beating - UN Criticises Israel's Construction Of Wall - The most anti-Israeli American president ever - Israel shoot another Palestinian unarmed protester
UN Security Council Meets Over Israel Assassinations - Less than a month after several countries in the United Nations Security Council condemned the killing of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the 15-member body met today to discuss the assassination by Israel of his replacement, Abdelaziz Rantissi, ... See... Security Council discusses killing of Hamas leader
Israel Assassinates Hamas Leader Dr. Abdel Aziz Al Rantisi - GAZA, Palestine -- The Israeli occupying forces (IOF) extra-judicially executed the new leader of Hamas movement in Gaza Strip, Dr. Abdel Aziz Al Rantisi, and two of his bodyguards on Sunday (NZ Time), medical sources and eyewitnesses confirmed. See... Hamas Leader Al-Rantisi Assassinated by Israel
ALSO:
- Palestine National Authority - Assassination of Al Rantisi, PNA Gravely Concerned
- Israel Defense Force - IOF Statement: Abdel Aziz Rantisi Killed
- Global Peace & Justice Auckland - GPJA Condemns Israel and Calls for NZ Govt Action
- Earlier: White House - Bush Blair Comments Pre-empt Israel Assassination
Incredulity In Press Corps At State Dept. View On West Bank - "No, there is no change in U.S. policy on settlements. The United States has -- (laughter) -- look, the United States has supported the roadmap. Yesterday's discussions always talked about the roadmap. As you know, the roadmap itself talks about a freeze on settlement activity. The United States has always felt that settlements were indeed one of the difficulties that had to be resolved in a final -- in a negotiation, when it came to territory, which is a final status issue." See State Dept. Daily Press Briefing for April 15 and State Dept. Daily Press Briefing for April 14
MORE:
- UK - Blair Makes Statement On Israeli Defence Forces
- Gush Shalom - Responses to the Bush-Sharon peace + update
- Bush Commends Israeli Prime Minister Sharon's Plan
- Statement by the President On Israel & Palestine
- PNA - PM Qoreia warns US over guarantees for Sharon
Movie Review: Death in Gaza - James Millers ''Death in Gaza,'' was shown at the second annual Chicago International Documentary Film Festival. It examines the lives of Palestinian youth who live in Nablus, West Bank and Rafah, Gaza of the occupied Palestinian Territories. See... James Miller's Documentary: Death in Gaza
Genevieve Cora Fraser: A Million Trees Uprooted - In a bizarre twist to Biblical tradition, the Israeli military has launched an unprecedented assault on the Palestinian environment that threatens to undermine and destroy the plant and animal life of the Holy Land. See... Israeli Troops Destroy Milk and Honey in Holy Land
Uri Avnery: Taking Issue With Arafat Comments On The Passion - In the weekly Palestinian paper, The Jerusalem Times, there appeared on March 26 a short item reporting that you have viewed the controversial film of Mel Gibson, ''The Passion of the Christ''. See... Letter To Arafat About "The Passion Of The Christ"
Scoop Poem: A Palestinian Funeral - Bodies borne aloft : Shut into death's release : Float in caskets swaying : On a sea of Arab hands. See... Poem: Palestinian Martyrs Triumphant
Israel Moves To Starve 600,000 Palestinians - The main United Nations relief agency for Palestine refugees today suspended emergency food aid to some 600,000 people in Gaza about half of all those receiving such assistance in the occupied Palestinian territories following new Israeli restrictions ... See... Israel Blocks Food To 600,000 Palestinians
Genevieve Cora Fraser: Assassination!! - Assassination!! My, my, how Israel loves assassination! Perhaps its part of a special Zionist democratic impulse, a sort of over enthusiastic way of making their point perfectly clear, this need to kill. See... A Coverup for What's Really at Stake in Palestine
Chuckman Cartoons (1) - (2)
Several Israeli Perspectives On The Yassin Assassination - In the following you read how Uri Avnery places the assassination of Sheikh Yassin in context, and in the four forwarded articles of the Israeli-Palestinian email magazine Bitter Lemons (Assassinations and the conflict - Ed.12) you find the subject approached from several significant angles. On martyrdom and the limited horizon of generals
Security Council Outrage Vetoed By U.S - Condemning Israel's assassination on Monday of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in Gaza, numerous speakers addressing an open meeting of the Security Council this evening called on the 15-member body to take decisive action in response. See... Security Council speakers condemn Israel's killing
ALSO: US Thwarts UN Statement Condemning Israel - Elderly among 6 Shot Dead by IOF in 48 Hours
Manuel Valenzuela: What Was Sharon Thinking? - What were Sharon and the Israeli government thinking when they decided to decapitate Hamas through the assassination of its founder, Sheik Ahmed Yassin? See... Manuel Valenzuela: A Malignant Tumor On The World
Uri Avnery: The Political Madness Around War - A Prime Minister is waging war. The great majority of the people oppose the war. The majority vote for the Prime Minister. Absurd? Well, that was the situation in Spain. It also applies, more or less, in Israel. But here the similarity ends. See... Uri Avnery: Bravo, Amigos!
Translated From Hebrew: Volunteering & Mortality - Sharon is looking for volunteers. He is seeking people who endorse Yassin's liquidation, who salute and cheer the wisdom of the Prime Minister and who "are willing to pay the price". He's looking for volunteers who are willing to pay the price not in some theoretical way, nothing political or ideological, but in real hard currency. See... Translation: Who's Volunteering To Die?
Security Council Holds Urgent Open Meeting On Israel Attack - Amid rising tensions in the Middle East following Monday's assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in Gaza, the Security Council held an open meeting today with nearly 40 speakers scheduled to take part in the debate. See... Security Council meets on killing of Hamas leader
ALSO: Security Council Urged: Act Against Israel Crimes - Palestine Calls For UN Security Council Meeting - US Refuses to Condemn Yasins Assassination - 16 Killed on Monday by the IOF, 45 Wounded in oPt - UN Concern: Hizbollah Attacks Israeli Retaliation
Israeli Prime Minister Orders Gun-Ship Assassination Of Hamas Head - Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) extra-judicially executed the founder and spiritual leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas Sheikh Ahmad Yasin while leaving a mosque after he performed his predawn prayers in Gaza City early Monday. See... Assassination of Sheik Yasin Opened Pandora's box
ALSO: Arafat Orders 3day Mourning in Palestine, Diaspora
Palestinians Shocked, Gloomy and Boiling
Outrage: Israel Assassinates Sheikh Yasin
REACTION:
Palestines Ahmad Qurei Says Assassination A Crazy Act - Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) extra-judicially assassinated the spiritual leader of Hamas Sheikh Ahmad Yasin while leaving a mosque after he performed his predawn prayers in Gaza early Monday. The martyr founded the Islamic Resistance Movement ... See... Palestine PM: Killing Crazy Dangerous Cowardly Act
ALSO: Sharon Speaks On His Assassination of Sheikh Yasin
- Israel Says Yasin Directly Responsible for Attacks
- EU Says Assassination Bad News For Peace Process
- USA Reacts to Israeli Killing of Hamas Founder
- UN Head condemns Israeli assassination of Yasin
- Amnesty condemns the assassination of Sheikh Yasin
- NZ Govt: Yassin Killing Will Heighten Middle East Violence
SCOOP COMMENTARY:
- David Miller - Last year, this column wrote that Israels deployment of F-16 fighters to attack leading Palestinian militants marked a significant development in the conflict between the two sides. See... David Miller: Israels Decapitation Strike and Scoop Feedback: D. Miller's Decaptitation Strike
- Chuckman Cartoon - Chuckman Cartoon: Yassin
ISM Stages 'Die In' For Rachel Corrie's Memory.
Sonia Nettnin: A War Exhibition - According to Hebrew Scriptures, the Garden of Eden, where human life burst forth, was located in what is now Iraq. In this land, civilization began and humans created the wheel, the earliest system of writing, and the first legal code for social justice. See... Eyes Wide Open: An Exhibition on the Iraq War
Genevieve Cora Fraser: Earthquake in April - Today the above quote by Nazmi Al-Ju'beh resonates as both history and prophesy as Israel flexes the full force of its might and muscle throughout the Terra Sancta, the Holy Land. See... Israel Escalates Assaults on Palestine and Poem: Marching With An IDF Soldier Against War
Genevieve Cora Fraser: Poems Of Pain - Another day in Palestine : Executed under purgatorial : Skies cloudy with menace : Dark figures stalk : The roots that sprang : From Jesse's seed : Arms rigid as steel : Squeeze cold fingers : Executed in perfect : Obedience to Israeli Will See... Genevieve Cora Fraser: Two Poems Of Palestine
Genevieve Cora Fraser: Truth An Be Painful- I can see why the full weight of Zionist propaganda and intimidation tactics were leveled against Elizabeth Laird's children's masterpiece, "A Little Piece of Ground," targeted at an 11- 14 year-old readership. Truth can be painful, especially when it unmasks the real terrorist activity in Palestine, the state sponsored reign of terror orchestrated by the Israel Defense Force against families in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. See... Genevieve Cora Fraser: A Little Piece of Ground. See also... Poem: IBDAA - To Create Something Out of Nothing
Genevieve Cora Fraser: Stealing Palestine - You've got to hand it to Israeli planners working hand in glove with the military. Not since the Zionist take-over of Palestine in 1948 have the pieces locked into place so perfectly. See... Death Squads Wear Suits as Well As Uniforms .
ISM Stages 'Die In' For Memory of Rachel Corrie - On the one-year anniversary of the killing of 23-year old American ISM activist Rachel Corrie, twenty international activists from ISM and CPT remembered their friend by performing a die-in at the Erez checkpoint to protest the atrocities of the Israeli ... ISM Stages 'Die In' Tribute to Victims.
Tribute To Rachel Corrie One Year On - Rachel Corrie, an American peace activist who was killed one year ago by the Israeli occupying forces in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, after being crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer near the Palestinian-Egyptian borders. See... Tribute to Rachel Corrie: One Year After
ALSO:
Vigils To Honor The Memory Of Rachel Corrie - Double Suicide Bombing In Israeli Port Condemned - IDF: Terrorists Murder 10 in Double Suicide Bombing - Israel Govt Post Cabinet Briefing - Israelis Kill 44 Palestinians in Two Weeks - Ramallah: IOF Wounds 15 Palestinian Demonstrators - Physicians: Another Day in Occupied Territories
For more see International Solidarity Movement website
Sonia Nettnin: Zionism - The political movement of Zionism is about the continuous development of Israel. This expansion occurs through the confiscation of Palestinian land and resources. See... Effects of Zionism on the Palestinian People
Ed: A Protest Trip Into The West Bank - On Sunday we set off to Beit Dukka, another village near Biddu, because wed heard that the army had began work on the wall there. It was meant to be covered by the court order that stopped the work in the area, until the court makes its judgement over whether the work is legal (which is now expected tomorrow - Thursday). See... Where Protesters Are Peaceful And Soldiers Violent
Ramzy Baroud: Shooting The Messengers - Khalid al-Zabin, a 59-year-old Palestinian journalist was ambushed outside his office in Gaza, on Tuesday, March 02. His body was riddled with bullets. All that is known about his executioners is that they wore masks. See... Ramzy Baroud: Gaza Must Spurn Anarchy
Poems Addressing The Holy Land's Trials & Tribulations - The following is an excerpt from a poem that caused a sensation when it was read at a Tel Aviv event marking the first year of the Intifada. The poet is an Israeli professor of Hebrew literature and he is famous throughout Occupied Palestine as a lyricist and TV show host. He was commissioned by the Israeli government to write many of its military songs. See... Poem: We Shoot Children Too, Don't We and Genevieve Cora Fraser's latest...Poem: Palestinian Campfire in Freedom's Night
UN Meeting USA and UK Over Middle East Peace Plan - A senior United Nations envoy is in Washington today for a meeting with United States National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice on the situation in the Middle East, including issues related to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's proposals concerning a withdrawal . See... UN in Talks With Rice Over Middle East Peace
: Upholding the Rights of Palestine and Israel - In the March 8th publication in Al-Jazeerah.info of "Upholding the Rights of Palestine and Israel" (also know as The Oath of Office is to America, Not Israel) by Genevieve Cora Fraser , the editor Dr. Hassan El-Najjar provides additional information and corrections to the Neff quotes. See... Genevieve Cora Fraser: Statistics Revised. See also... Scoop Poem: Palestine's Dance of Life
Israel Restrictions Erode Health Of Palestinian Women - Calling on Israeli authorities and the Palestinian Authority to provide good basic services for women, seven United Nations institutions today said the health of Palestinian women, especially those who are pregnant, have been negatively affected by restrictions. See... Restrictions Adversely Affect Palestinian Women
MORE: UN: Latest Round Of Middle East Violence Deplored
UK Peace Activist Tom Hurndall Dies
Israels Military Continues Destruction Inside Gaza Strip - TULKAREM, Palestine -- The Israeli occupying forces (IOF) continued its ongoing military offensive against the Palestinian citizens, hours only after a massacre in Gaza Strip that left 14 Palestinians dead and 83 others wounded. See Israel Force Continues Destruction In Gaza
ALSO: Death Toll Climbs To 14 After Israel Gaza Invasion - IDF: Terrorist Organizations Exploit Zones - IDF: Activity in the El-Buriej Refugee Camp
COMMENT: The Forgotten Children Of Palestine & Much More - Palestinian-child-prisoners have almost no attention by the media. The Palestine Monitor reports that over 2,000 children have been arrested since the second Intifada and around 350 children are incarcerated in Israeli detention centers and prisons. See... Sonia Nettnin: The Child Prisoners Of Palestine
MORE COMMENT ON THE HOLY LAND:
- Genevieve Cora Fraser - The Oath Of Office Is To America, Not Israel
- Sol Salbe - Jerusalem Post Smears Rachel Corrie's Memory
- Tariq Ali -Tariq Ali:To Be Intimidated Is To Be An Accomplice
Genevieve Cora Fraser: Natural History In The Holy Land - For those looking for a respite from the Intifada and a reminder of the exquisite beauty native to Palestine, "Spring is Here, Embroidered Flowers of the Palestinian Spring" is a haunting tribute to the region. See... Reverent Depiction of Palestine's Native Splendor
Palestine Through The Eyes Of Palestinian Kids - World leaders should see the art work of Palestinian youth. I saw an art exhibit that contains diary entries, drawings, letters, paintings, and poetry. The exhibit has Palestinian narratives and visual depictions of daily life under Israeli occupation. See... Palestinian Youth Narrate Life under Occupation. See also... Sonia Nettnin: Public Expressions about the Wall
Genevieve Cora Fraser: Who Are The Terrorists? - The Israeli military's chief of staff General Moshe Yaalon (Bugi) announced on Army Radio March 2 that Israel Defense Forces will intensify operations in the occupied territories. See... Israeli Attacks to Escalate On Palestinians and Scoop Poem: Palestine's Children (Agar's Dream)
Teenagers For Peace In Israel And Palestine - A growing number of teens who live in Jerusalem and the Palestinian Occupied Territories are in organizations that promote peace, justice and self-empowerment. Seeds of Peace, Pyalara, Shministim, and Dheisheh-Ibdaa.net are some examples of these youth movements ... See... Sonia Nettnin: Teens Organize for Peace and Justic
Brutal Treatment of Palestine is not Upheld by People of Conscience - In an article by Senator John Kerry for a Brown University magazine, the Senator refers to Israel as the only true democracy in the Middle East and concludes, "the cause of Israel must be the cause of America--and the cause of people of conscience everywhere." See... Genevieve Cora Fraser: Kerry Listen. See also Scoop Poems: Palestinian Crystal in Israel's Night
Scoop Poem: Israel Banks Palestinian Money Israel robbed the banks today - Storm trooped into Branches - Incased them in razor wire - Confined bank staff and customers - Blocked security cams in sacks - Like common thieves - Stashed millions ... See... Scoop Poem: Israel Banks Palestinian Money
Ed Reports From Jerusalem On Peace & Trees -- "When they build a wall by a mans house and cut him off from his land, where he gets his food from, they force him to die. Will he chose to die on his own or take others with him?" See... Jerusalem: Olive Trees = Peace
Genevieve Cora Fraser: Another President for the Occupation? - Just when I thought John Kerry would be fair to both sides... this article appears... '' The Cause of Israel is the Cause of America ,'' by Senator John F. Kerry. See... John Kerry's Words have Inflamed Arab Community
Between The Lines Interview: Israel's Misguided Wall - Palestinians Charge Israeli Barrier Will Bring Neither Security Nor Peace - Interview with Mazin Qumsiyeh, co-founder of Al-Awda, Palestinian Right to Return, conducted by Melinda Tuhus See... Barrier Will Bring Neither Security Nor Peace
Translated Hebrew Commentary On The Provocation of Hamas - Some time in the next day, week or month a lot of us will be putting pen to paper condemning a Palestinian suicide bombing in which innocent civilians have been killed. But, more than any other time in the past we would be condemning the other side as well. For the Israeli government, will be sharing the blame. See... Read This Before The Next Suicide Bombing
A View From Inside The Israeli Peace Movement - First we settled on occupied territory in the mostly densely populated place in the world. Then we expropriated the best plots of land for ourselves. We killed them and were killed by them. See... Shulamit Aloni: Do Uproot That Which Is Planted!
Uri Avnery On Sharon's Gaza Deception - Do you want to make the deal of a lifetime? Go to Gaza! The government has kindly laid on armored vehicles for this purpose. Once there, you can obtain the villa you have dreamt about all your life, with two floors and a green lawn, for next to nothing. See... Uri Avnery: Go To Gaza!
Ramzy Baroud: What Do Israel's Leaders Really Want? - One can hardly overlook the reverberation of triumph in the words of Ariel Sharon's own chief spokesman, Ranaan Gissin on Thursday, January 29. When commenting on a suicide bombing that killed 10 Israelis and wounded others in Jerusalem, Gissin exhorted: "This terrorist attack is the best argument that we can use to defend the sacred right of Israel to exercise legitimate self-defense." See... Beyond Wall & Propaganda: Violence Begets Violence
Genevieve Cora Fraser: The Apartheid Wall - As the Apartheid Wall continues to snake and squeeze its way through the occupied Palestinian landscape, like a giant Israeli boa-constrictor killing and devouring along its path, is the ultimate purpose to annihilate Palestinians? See... Is The Wall A Roadmap To Palestinian Annihilation?
Uri Avnery: Apartheid In the Holy Land Contextualised - An Eskimo comes to town and sees a piece of glass for the first time in his life. The glass looks to him like ice. Ice is transparent, and so is glass. Ice can be chewed. So the Eskimo puts the glass in his mouth and starts to chew. See... Uri Avnery: An Eskimo in Bantustan
Ongoing Civilian Attacks In Israel/Occupied Territories - Amnesty International strongly condemns the suicide attack in Jerusalem that claimed the lives of at least ten people and injured scores of others when a man blew himself up in a bus on Thursday morning. See... Israel/Territories: Killing of civilians must stop
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- Sharon Diverts World Attention by Escalation
- Gaza: UN urges Israel not to endanger civilians
- Islamic Jihad Vows Revenge
- Israeli Attack on Gaza Eight Killed Dozens Wounded
Latest Israel Killings In Palestine Draws Int. Concerns - New Israeli Massacre in Gaza Claims 8 Palestinian Lives Abed Rabbo: Sharon Diverting World Attention by Military Escalation See... Sharon Diverts World Attention by Escalation
ALSO: Gaza: UN urges Israel not to endanger civilians - Islamic Jihad Vows Revenge - Israeli Attack on Gaza Eight Killed Dozens Wounded
Peace Activists Worldwide Morn Tom Hurndalls Death
You may have already heard that Tom Hurndall died this evening. His family and supporters have called for a vigil outside Downing Street tomorrow, Wednesday, at 5.30pm. Bring candles, placards, media.
Tom died hours after the soldier who shot him was charged with aggravated assault. The soldier has also been charged with obstruction of justice for first shooting Tom through the forehead and only afterwards seeking permission from his commander to kill Mr Hurndall on the fabricated grounds that he was carrying a gun. See... Peace Vigils Worldwide Morn Tom Hurndalls Death
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Tom Hurndall - The Case That Wouldn't Close - Tom Hurndall is dead. Nine months after being shot in the head by an Israeli soldier which left him in a coma, two months after his 22nd birthday, and one day after his mother knelt at his bedside and whispered the good news that his assailant had finally ... See... Sheila Samples: The Case That Wouldn't Close
Why A Nuclear Middle East Will Be Hard To Prevent - Against the background of changes in the overall political setting of the Middle East it is important to focus on Israel's nuclear strategy as the former possibilities of the superpowers to control and fence in the conflicts in the Middle East have given way to new power structures. See... Israel Rafalovich: A Nuclear Middle East
Israel Further Restricts Visitors To Palestinian Territories - The Israeli Military has imposed new restrictions on visitors to the Palestinian Territories. Visitors to the West Bank and Gaza Strip are now required to apply for permission and obtain written authorization from the Civil Administration. See Israel's Restrictions Further Isolate Palestinians
ALSO:British Airways billboards in West Bank settlement
Israel Takes Control Of Tulkarem Camp - Palestine -- The Israeli Army invaded Tulkarem Refugee Camp shortly before 11:00 this morning. Approximately 20-30 military vehicles - APCs and jeeps - rolled into the camp, occupied its entirety and carried out operations in three neighborhoods in ... See... Israeli Army Occupies Tulkarem Camp
Palestine Threatens To Claim Statehood Over Territories - GAZA -- The Palestinian Prime Minister, Ahmad Qurei' declared that he would push for a bi-national state including all the lands of historical Palestine if his Israeli counterpart Ariel Sharon seizes more lands in the West Bank. See... Palestine PM Qurei' Proposes Bi-National State
Israel Spills Blood In The School Yard - TULKAREM, Palestine -- Ever since the eruption of Al Aqsa Intifada, the Israeli occupying forces waged an unabated war with no day passing by without bloodletting and violence. See... Tulkarem School Student Death Toll: 27 Killed
ALSO: Israel Invades Jenin Fatah Assassination Attempt - IOF Invades Rafah Uses Civilians as Human Shields
Israel Arrests Hizbullahs Manar TV Correspondent - The head of Lebanese Press Federation Mohammed Baalbaki denounced the Israeli occupation troops' arrest of Al Manar correspondent in the occupied territories Deeb Hourani. Baalbaki said, "this action comes under the israeli enemy practices to suppress ... See... Lebanon Press Denounces Arrest Of Al Manar TV Journo
ALSO: Jenin: Israel Arrests Al Aqsa Brigades Operative And Hizbullah TV Correspondent
US Veto At United Nations Damned By Palestine
Palestine Seeks EU Help On Peace Initiatives - LISBON -- Palestinian Foreign Minister, Nabil Shaath, said that the European Union have to open a new dual peace initiative, for the Middle East, given the U.S engagement in the due 2004 elections. See... EU Must Open Dual Peace Initiative On Middle East
ALSO: Nablus: Israeli Soldiers Kill Teenager - Israel Forces Bulldoze Ancient Sector To Rubble
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Why A UN Peacekeeping Force In Palestine Is Urgent - Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967, whenever a vote would come before the United Nations to replace the Israeli Defense Force with an international battalion of UN Peacekeepers, America and Israel blocked the move. This must stop. See... Why A UN Peacekeeping Force In Palestine Is Urgent
Latest Reports: Israel Seals Off Nablus, Siege Intensifies
Siege: Israel Seals Off Nablus - Nablus has been under siege for the last 10 days while Balata refugee camp has been under siege for the last 18 consecutive days. We have just heard that every single entrance/exit to Balata has been sealed off completely. No food or medicine is allowed in. Medical relief teams are being obstructed and at times completely prevented from passing through. See... Urgent Appeal from Nablus To Help End Siege
ALSO: Latest Images From Nablus 640th Day Of Occupation - News from Rafah - Media Blackout Over Israeli Atrocities in Nablus - Nablus: Resistance Under Occupation
Uri Avnery: Israeli Public Opinion Is Turning - It is not yet a tidal wave. But it is more then a ripple. It is a wave in the process of formation. See... Uri Avnery: The Weathercocks Are Turning
Ramzy Baroud: Palestinian Graffiti - While in high school, I used to write a weekly article. Pretending to use the schools restroom, I would hide a scrap of paper behind a specified toilet and leave. See... Ramzy Baroud: The War on Aljazeera
Uri Avnery's Peace Award Acceptance Speech - Instead of my usual weekly article, this time I am sending my acceptance speech on receiving, together with Sari Nusseibeh, the Lev Kopelev prize. The award ceremony took place last week in Cologne, Germany. See... Uri Avnery: Anti-Semitism
Counting The Cost: The Destruction Of Rafah - RAFAH, Palestine -Said Zurob, mayor of Rafah municipality, revealed that the Israeli occupying forces had completely destroyed 1500 houses and partially damaged 500 others in Rafah city, south of Gaza Strip, within the last 38 months of Al Aqsa Intifada. See... Rafah: Israel Destroys 2000 Homes Displaces 30,000
ALSO: IOF Shoot Dead Two Palestinians Including Boy (11) - Sharon Committed To Roadmap, Wont Rule Out Strikes - Palestine Doubts Sharon Will Dismantle Settlements
Ramzy Baroud: An Agreement Sharon Says Smells Bad - The ''Swiss Agreement'', thus far a symbolic peace initiative devised by ex-Israeli and Palestinian officials, embodies the perfect formula for an equally emblematic remedy to the Arab-Israeli conflict. See... The Swiss Agreement: A Promise or a Pretense?
Guest Opinion: The Significance Of A Single Rape-Murder - On October 29, 2003, a leading Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported a rape-murder that occurred more than fifty years ago at Nirim, an Israeli military outpost in the Negev. The victim was a Palestinian girl, in her early or mid-teens, or younger; the perpetrators of this crime were members of the Israeli Defense Force.... See... Guest Opinion: Voiding the Palestinians
Book Review: Direct Action In Occupied Palestine - Much has been written about the Middle East and its primary conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli dispute. With the passing of time, the uniqueness of what has be written, and likely what's yet to be, is thinning. See... Ramzy Baroud: Book Review "Live from Palestine"
Uri Avnery: Cancer In The Gaza Strip - In the Six-Day War, hundreds of Israeli soldiers were murdered while storming the Sinai desert, the West Bank and the Golan heights. In the Yom-Kippur War, more than 2000 Israeli soldiers were murdered in the defense of the conquered territories. See... Uri Avnery: The Cancer Cells
SNAFU: A Trilogy Of Israel/Palestine Viewpoints
- The United States apparently has fitted out the Harpoon missiles it previously supplied Israel to accommodate nuclear warheads. See... John Chuckman: Several Steps Closer To Armageddon
- It matters little whether the mastermind behind the killing of three Americans in Gaza on Wednesday, October 15, was a Palestinian group or Israeli intelligence. Whats of relevance, however is that the Palestinian people, their leadership, resistance ... See... Truth is Least Pertinent in the Gaza Bombing Case
- Do you try to promote peace in your "little corner of the world"? Do you consider yourself to be an anti-war activist? See... Opinion: Activist Fatigue and Palestinian Heart
Bernard Weiner: The Hard Road Not Taken- Can we just acknowledge that there is no "road map" to peace in the Middle East? Under Bush, there is no U.S.-sponsored avenue or boulevard or street or back alley that could possibly take the parties to a solution. See... Bernard Weiner: There Is No "Road Map" to Peace
Uri Avnery: Protecting Arafat On The Day Of Atonement - The most dramatic moment arrived in the evening after Yom Kippur. See... Uri Avnery: Living Shield See also... Guest Opinion: Redeeming The 'Promised Land'
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US Veto At United Nations Damned By Palestine - The Palestine National Authority (PNA) said Tuesday that the United States has lost credibility as an honest broker in the Middle East peace process and slammed the US veto, which aborted a draft resolution condemning Israeli governments decision ... See... PNA Holds US Responsible for Consequences of Veto
ALSO: United Nations: USA Vetos Resolution That Would Have Preventing Arafat's Expulsion - Terrorism Is Key Issue in Middle East, U.S. Says
Arafat Calls All Palestinians To Ceasefire
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Arafat Says U.S. Let Roadmap Die - President Yasser Arafat told CNN Tuesday that the United States let the roadmap for peace and a Palestinian state die and the plan was dead only because of Israeli aggression, which has escalated militarily and politically with Israels renewed ... See... Arafat: Israeli Aggression Killed Roadmap
Middle East
EU Refuses To Sever Contacts With Arafat - European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Sunday rejected demands by Israel to sever contacts with the elected Palestinian President Yasser Arafat during talks with Israeli officials aimed at reviving the roadmap peace plan, as Russia intensified ... See... EU Rejects Severing Contacts with Arafat
Middle East
Arafat Calls All Palestinians To A Ceasefire - President Yasser Arafat criticized US intervention in Palestinian internal affairs and called on all Palestinians to reinstate the Hudna (ceasefire) declared on June 29, a call hailed by the PNA government of PM Mahmud Abbas, but dismissed by the US and Israel, amid a new American and Israeli campaign of incitement against Arafat, which the Palestinian mainstream ruling party blasted on Wednesday. See... US Undercuts Arafats Call for Reinstating Truce
Israel Forces Close Off West Bank And Gaza (image courtesy of Palestine Media Centre)
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Elderly Civilian Killed During Israel Assassination Attempt - An elderly Palestinian was killed and twenty-six more bystanders, including six children, were injured when Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles at a car carrying Hamas activists in the Gaza Strip Tuesday, who escaped with moderate injuries, according ... See... Elderly Killed In Failed Israeli Assassination
PNA Calls For International Peacekeeping Forces - Leading US lawmakers on Sunday publicly voiced concern over the deteriorating situation on the ground between Palestinians and Israelis, and said that military involvement by the United States and its NATO allies may be necessary, thus giving more weight ... See... US, Israel, Palestine Call for Intl Intervention
From The Middle East
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Hamas Seeks Vengeance After Israeli Gun-ships Assassinate Four More - Four Palestinians have been extra-judicially killed on Sunday after an Israeli Apache gunship fired several missiles at their vehicle in an overcrowded neighbourhood in Gaza City following Israels refusal of a Palestinian offer to renew the ceasefire ... See... Israel Persists With Assassinations, Kills 4 More
Powell Demands Mid East Terror Must End -While at the UN, Secretary of State Colin Powell urged Arab nations and others to press radical groups to end the violence in the Middle East so that progress on the roadmap for peace between Israelis and Palestinians can proceed. See Middle East Terror "Has to End," Powell Says
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Israel Forces Close Off West Bank and Gaza Strip
Israel Security Cabinet Makes Security Decisions
IOF Shoot Dead Two Teenage Brothers
Gush Shalom: Two States - One Common Future
Iraq: U.S. Soldier Shoots Journalist - US occupation troops in Iraq shot dead an award-winning Reuters Palestinian cameraman Mazen Dana, 43, while he was filming on Sunday near a prison run by American soldiers on the outskirts of Baghdad, to be the second Palestinian journalist killed by American ... See... Iraq: US Troops Shoot 2nd Palestinian Journalist
Middle East
In Wake Of Roadmap: Abbas Cautions On Total Collapse - The Palestine National Authority (PNA) Prime Minister Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) warned Monday that the practices of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) -- including violation of the declared truce, as well as their continuation of assassination operations ... See... Abbas: Israeli Practices Lead to Total Collapse
On The Middle East
Palestinian Health System Facing Major Crisis: WHO
U.S. Says PNA Must Dismantle Terrorist Groups
Annan condemns two suicide bombings against Israel
Suicide bombings in Israel condemned
What Happened to Your Promises Mr. Sharon?
Israel Builds Peace Roadblocks In Hebron
Image courtesy of Christian Peacemaker Teams.
Suicide Bombers Attack Israel After Leading Hizbullah Figure Assassinated - Two separate suicide bombings have struck inside Israel, injuring about 12 and killing two people. The attacks follow Israels assassination of a leading Hizbullah figure in the heart of the groups stronghold in the southern part of the Lebanese capital Beirut last week. See... Bombers Strike After Israel's Hizbullah Attack
Arafat Enraged At Israels Askar Refugee Camp Invasion - Palestinians React Angrily to Fridays Israeli Deadly Raid Arafat: Israel Is Destroying the Whole Peace Process See... Arafat On Israel's Invasion Of Askar Refugee Camp
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Israel Forces Surround Arafat Again - IOF Mass Troops Around Arafats Headquarters Israel Continues Raids, Detentions in West Bank in Violation of Truce. See IOF Mass Troops Around Arafats Headquarters
Palestinian Humanitarian Crisis Looms - The United Nations agency in charge of helping Palestinian refugees said that if its appeal for millions of dollars in aid was not answered immediately, then the agency, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA, will have to cut humanitarian assistance to hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. See... 100,000s Palestinians Face Humanitarian Aid Cut
Middle East
Blair Rejects Sharons Appeal To Out Arafat - Britain rebuffed visiting Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharons appeal Monday to cut ties with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. See... Britain Rebuffs Sharon's Appeal to Boycott Arafat
Middle East
Irish Man Detained by Israel is not a bomb maker
UN Calls Israel Palestinians & International Donors To Advance Peace
Draft Resisters Parents Forum
International Volunteers Stage Protest From Prison
Hearing Date For Ism 8 Postponed Again Bail Denied
Arafat, Abbas Approve Terms of Reference
PNA: Intl Intervention to Solve Detainees Problem
Israel Seeks Euro Alternative to Hamas Welfare
Russia Steps Up Role In Middle East Peace - Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov is expected in Ramallah, coming from Jordan, the first leg of a five-day visit to the Middle East aiming to step up Russias role in the peace process and to discuss the idea of international forces deployment to monitor the implementation of the roadmap. See... Russia's In Middle East to Discuss Int Forces
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Arafats Fatah Party Reactivates Its Institutions - Following a meeting chaired by President Yasser Arafat in Ramallah Wednesday, the Revolutionary Council of the Palestine Liberation Movement Fatah, decided to reactivate the Palestinian ruling partys institutions and to institutionalize the Palestinian leaderships various missions, with effective follow-up mechanisms. See Palestinian Fatah Party Reactivates Institutions
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Peace Roadmap Maneuvers Made For Television - The most talented director could not have done better. It was a perfect show. Television viewers all over the world saw heroic Israeli soldiers on their screens battling the fanatical settlers. See... The Best Show In Town - Uri Avnery
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- Quartet Statement - Statement By The Middle East Quartet
- Israel Govt. - Sharons remarks at weekly Cabinet meeting, Sharon's statement at Powell press conference
- Russia - Putin Affirms his Role in Peace Process
- Palestine Media Center - Settlers Set up More than 10 New Outposts , Israel Assassinates Top Hamas Activist
- United States - Powell Press Conference with Israeli PM Sharon, Colin L. Powell and Israeli FM - Joint Statement, Powell with Palestinian PM Abbas - Press Conf.
Massive Support For Int Solidarity Movement - The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) said that more 2,000 people from all over the world will join forces in Palestine this summer to protest the brutality of the [Israeli] occupation and the injustices perpetrated by the Israeli forces ... See... Thousands to Join ISMs Freedom Summer Campaign
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Getting Lost On The Road To Peace - President Bushs "road map to peace," which is based on the widely held vision of an independent Palestinian State co-existing side by side with a secure and safe Israel, may still fail to deliver peace in the Middle East.... First Establish the Will to Peace
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Arafat Agrees To Unified PLO Leadership - PNA Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has announced that President Yasser Arafat agreed to form a unified national leadership (UNL) within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) See... Arafat Agrees to Form Unified National Leadership
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European Union Considering Middle East Peacekeeping Force - EU foreign ministers are set to look on Monday at the feasibility of taking part in a peacekeeping force in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory. See EU to Consider Peacekeeping Force for Palestine
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Uri Avnery: Militarism In Israel - A week after the ship of peace was solemnly launched on its perilous voyage from Aqaba harbor, it was hit by a torpedo. It is not yet clear whether it is wrecked or can continue on its way in spite of the damage. See... Uri Avnery: Children of Death
David Miller Online: A Troubled Roadmap To Peace - It does not take an expert in International Affairs to realise that the US backed Road Map for the Middle East is already in trouble. See... Give the Road Map a Chance
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Israel Tears Up Palestinian Roads - HEBRON, WEST BANK -- At night on Thursday, June 12, the Israeli army dug deep holes in all the streets leading into the El-Manara vegetable market in Hebron and amassed huge piles of rubble closing off all roads into the area. See Hebron Roadblocks - Are These On The Road Map?
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PLO PNA Urge Israel For Immediate Ceasefire - Arafat, Abbas Condemn Terrorist Operations in Jerusalem, Gaza PLO, PNA Urge Immediate Ceasefire but Israel Doesnt Reciprocate - Israeli Army Radio: IOF were ordered to completely wipe out Hamas with whatever means necessary See... Arafat, Abbas Condemn Terrorist Operations
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UN: Attacks 'utterly reprehensible'
Image courtesy of Int Solidarity Movement.
COLUMNS:
Is Sharon Capable Of Embracing Peace? - The Israeli public discourse has been storming around "Sharon's revolutionary change of mind". The extensive debate on his psyche focuses on the question whether he has changed from the inside, or whether it is all just U.S. pressure. See... Tanya Reinhart: The Complex Art Of Simulation
When Terror Begets Terror ( YellowTimes.org ) On June 6, four days after the Mideast peace summit in Jordan, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades launched an attack on the Israeli military in northern Gaza. The groups managed to kill four Israeli soldiers and wound many others... See... Ash Pulcifer: Fighting Terror With Terror
The Shrub's Big Chance To Become A Tree - I read something recently about America's Middle East initiative, the "road map", offering Bush the chance for greatness. Verbal excess like that demands a realistic discussion of the prospects. See... John Chuckman: The Man Who Wasn't There
International Outrage: U.S Condemns Israeli Assassination Attempt
Roadblock To Peace: In the face of International Outrage Israel Forces Vow To Continue Against Hamas - The IDF insists the Hamas leadership has made a strategic decision to undermine the "Road Map," and ruin any chance of dialogue which may lead to a cease-fire and political negotations. See... Strike Against Senior Hamas Leader
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Roadmap In Tatters As Bloodletting Escalates Israel has launched rocket attacks killing nine people in Gaza after a Palestinian suicide bus-bomb attack struck Jerusalem in retaliation for Israels attempted assassination on Tuesday of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi. See 10 Palestinians Killed in Black Tuesday
Cartoon Comment From John Chuckman
Palestine National Authority Calls On U.S. To Condemn Israel's Tactics
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Israel Attempts To Assassinate Hamas Leader al-Rantisi - The Palestine National Authority (PNA) Minister of Information, Nabil Amre, condemned the Israeli assassination attempt on Hamas political leader Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi as a terrorist attack aimed at sabotaging the Palestinian governments efforts for peace... See... PNA Calls on US to End Israels Bloody Practices ALSO: PNA Accuses Sharon of Deception over Settlements - Attack on Rantisi is Attack Against Roadmap - Israel's Failed Hamas Assasination Condemned
Scoop Dep Editors Note: As of 12:29am NZ Time Israel has yet to issue information on this assassination attempt. Hamas has vowed that Israel will pay dearly for the attack.
Hamas Vows Israel Will "Pay Dearly" For Assasination Attempt
PLO Profiles Israels Failing Commitment To Roadmap - - The Palestine Liberation Organizations (PLO) Executive Committee slammed the Israeli position during the Sharm el-Sheikh and Aqaba summits, saying it proved that Israel is still not completely committed to the implementation of the roadmap. See PLO: Israel Still Not Committed to Roadmap
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Palestine Statements - TULKARIM, Four Palestinian civilians were assassinated and four houses were destroyed Thursday when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) incurred into Aateel town, a northern outskirt of Tilkarim. See... Saturday: 4 Palestinians Assassinated in Tulkarim
Israel Statements - Israel Government Link: IDF soldier killed in Hebron; 4 troops killed in Gaza attack - An Israel Defense Forces soldier was killed Sunday afternoon in a shooting attack close to the Tomb of the Patriarchs, in the West Bank city of Hebron. See IDF 4 troops killed in Gaza attack
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UN Positions For Humanitarian Factor Of Roadmap - The main United Nations relief agency assisting Palestine refugees has launched an urgent appeal to the international community for $103 million to support its emergency activities in the second half of 2003. See... UN launches $103 million appeal in WestBank-Gaza
U.S. PNA Israel Jordan Summit Meeting
U.S. President Bush Says Israel and Palestinian Authority Must Make Peace - See... Bush Meets Leaders of Jordan, Israel & Palestine
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COMMENTARY
Suddenly A Statesman - After ignoring the unending bloodshed between Israel and the Palestinians for the first two years of his administration, Bush is being sent out by Karl Rove to burnish up his appearance as a ''statesman''. See... Israel, the Palestinians, Sharon, Arafat and Bush
MORE ON MIDDLE EAST PEACE:
- Between The Lines - Flawed Mideast Peace Plan
Brian Cloughley: Reading The Road Map - One wonders how many people in Washington have actually read the full text of the "Performance-based Road Map to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict". Precious few, to judge from the reaction on the part of influential figures who appear wedded to peculiar maps of their own. See... Impartiality in Palestine
Dumping On Peace IOF Style
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On Eve Of Peace Meeting Israel Kills Three - Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) shot dead three Palestinians and detained at least forty others in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, hours before the expected meeting between Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and his Israeli counterpart ...On Eve Of Sharon/ Abu Mazen Meeting IOF Shoot Dead 3 Palestinians, Detain Dozens
Weekly Human Rights Report - This week from Palestine: Israeli occupying forces have continued to conduct illegal actions and human rights violations against Palestinian civilians, including collective punishment, shelling of and incursions into Palestinian areas, house demolitions ... See... Weekly Human Rights Report
Israel Forces Kill Boy And Wound Three Others
Shot British Camera Operator Returns To Britain - On 11th April Tom Hurndall - a young photographer observing and recording the work of a peace group in Gaza and the activities of the Israeli army was shot in the head by the Israeli army in the town of Rafah at the border between Gaza and Egypt. See... Tom Hurndall to Return to UK TODAY
NZ Announces More Aid For Palestinians - New Zealand will give $400,000 to the United Nations agency providing food aid and other humanitarian relief to Palestinians refugees, Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff announced in Ramallah overnight (NZT).
See More New Zealand support for Palestinian refugees
Israel Conceeds Accepts Roadmap (Cites USA Responsibilities)
Israel Accepts Roadmap - Goverment meeting at the PM's office in Jerusalem about the Prime Ministers statement on the Roadmap. See... Israel Accepts Roadmap Peace Blueprint
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- Washington File -U.S. Expects Israeli Government to Accept Road Map
Guilt By Association: Israel Continues To Demolish Suicide Bombers Homes - As part of the ongoing war against terror and its infrastructure, IDF forces demolished the house of Hamas terrorist Basam Takwari in Hebron. Takwari carried out the May 18, 2003, suicide bombing on a Jerusalem bus at the French Hill Junction which killed ... See... Israel Bulldozes Family Homes Of Suicide Bombers
Powell Clarifies USAs Position - Secretary of State Colin Powell took part in a press conference at the G-8 meetings in Paris May 23. Excerpts from that briefing follow: See... U.S. Not Planning on Making Changes to the Roadmap
Israeli Soldiers Raid Medical Centre Again - Around 02.30, 23 May, the UPMRC (Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees) field clinic in Nablus was raided by the IOF. See... UPMRC Clinic Raided and Trashed by IOF
Palestinian National Authority:
International Solidarity Movement:
Israeli bulldozer meeting youth resistance in Balata. Image courtesy of International Solidarity Movement
Israel Shoots Dead Mother Of Seven And A Student - Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) shot dead a Palestinian high school student and a mother of seven children in the village of Qarawat Bani Zaid, north of Ramallah, eyewitnesses and security sources said. See... IOF Kill Mother of Seven, Student Near Ramallah
Abbas Restates Arafats In Charge - EU, China Rebuff Israeli Threat to Boycott Palestinian Leader - Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) said President Yasser Arafat (Abu Ammar) remains in charge despite a US and Israeli refusal to deal with him, and said his stamp of ... See... Arafat Remains in Charge, Says PM Abu Mazen
Canadian Peace Activist Arrested - The Israeli occupation authorities are to deport a Canadian peace activist arrested in the West Bank city of Hebron as part of a wide-scale crackdown on internationals working in the occupied Palestinian territory. See... Israel Arrests Canadian Peace Activist
Consider The Two Women Who Went To War - 1) Action Alert - CPT member facing deportation 2) Why two women went to war (Rachel Corrie & Private Jessica Lynch)_Naomi Klein See... CPT member facing deportation+2 women went to war
IDF Forces Uncover Explosives - Israel claims to have uncovered a suicide bomb lab in the Nablus Casbah. IDF forces state it uncovered an explosives laboratory that manufactured material for use in suicide bombings against Israeli civilians and security forces.
The laboratory contained 6 explosive belts, (3 of which were ready for use), 25kg of T.A.T.P explosives material, and additional chemicals intended for use in explosive devices. IDF forces also found a suitcase filled with explosives and ball bearings, the IDF stated. The explosives laboratory was detonated in a controlled explosion.
A Roadmap To A Peaceful Palestine Is Published - The diplomatic Quartet - comprising the United Nations, United States, Russian Federation and European Union - released its Road Map for a permanent solution to the Middle East conflict today. See... Quartet releases Road Map to Middle East peace
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- Annan's "Off The Cuff" Comments On Roadmap
- UN Radio: Quartet presents Road Map
- Pledging UN support for Road Map
Rachel Corrie's Parents Call For Congressional Inquiry - Rachels Congressman, Brian Bairds (D-WA) office arranged the press conference, in which the congressman participated and announced his plan to introduce a resolution in Congress later this week. See... The Parents Of Rachel Corrie Hold Press Conference and Congressional Investigation Of Corrie Killing
The Death Of An Activist Full Coverage - Promoting Awareness of Those Who Are Oppressed: Scoop here presents a memorial photo-essay and reports of the Non-Violent protest works of United States peace activist Rachel Corrie. See... A Memorial to Rachel Corrie
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- Condolences for Rachel Corrie (New Email Address) - Rachel Corrie in her own words
- NY Jews Condemn Killing Of American Peace Activist
- - Condolences for Rachel Corrie
- Statement On The Murder Of Rachel Corrie
Bush Phones Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas - Washington File: President Bush began his day May 20 by placing a phone call to new Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas -- the first time he has spoken to him, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer told reporters. See... Bush Talks with Palestinian and Israeli PMs
Israelis Storm Through Beit Hanoun Again - Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) re-invaded the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, after it withdrew for several hours, leaving behind a trail of destroyed houses and uprooted olive, citrus and date palm trees. See... IOF Re-invade Beit Hanoun
British Cameraman Was Shot By Israeli Soldiers - On 8 May 2003, RSF called for the punishment of those responsible for the death of British freelance cameraman James Miller on 2 May. An autopsy revealed that the the only bullet to hit him entered his body from the front. See... Autopsy suggests British cameraman shot by Israel
IDF Beats Two Palestinian Journalists - Two Palestinian journalists beaten up by Israeli soldiers RSF voiced its outrage over the violent beating which two clearly identified Palestinian journalists received from Israeli soldiers in Bethlehem. See... Palestinian journalists beaten by Israeli soldiers
Image courtesy of International Solidarity Movement
PNA Says Israel Must Accept Roadmap - The Palestinian National Authority Minister Shaath today said Israeli acceptance of the roadmap is key to controlling and ending the violence See... Israel Must Accept Roadmap For Violence To Stop
International Solidarity Movement Witnesses Balata Resistance
Sunday, May 18th, clashes erupted between the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) and at least 80 Palestinian youth of the Balata refugee camp near Nablus. IOF entered Balata in an armored personnel carrier (APC) and a jeep at 4.25 AM. See... Clashes in Balata Refugee Camp, Nablus
IDF forces arrested overnight (May 19, 2003 Israel Time), 18 wanted Palestinians throughout the West Bank, including the parents of the terrorist who carried out the suicide bombing yesterday at the Sha'ar Hamakaim Mall in Afula. The parents of the suicide bomber were arrested in Tubas, north east of Hebron.
In addition, IDF forces arrested 8 wanted Palestinians in Hebron. IDF forces also arrested 2 Hamas terrorists in the Al-Amri refugee camp near Ramallah, and 3 wanted Palestinians in Al-Hadab, south of Hebron.
IDF forces arrested three additional wanted Palestinians, two in Yatta and one in Hebron.
Israel: Suicide Bomber Strikes At Afula Mall - At approximately 5:15pm Israel time, a suicide bomber blew herself up at the main entrance of the Sha'ar Ha'amakim Mall in Afula, apparently while undergoing a routine security check. A number of people have been killed and dozens more wounded. All casualties have been evacuated from the site of the attack.
Suicide Bomb Campaign Blocks RoadMap - UN Calls For Calm
PNA Condemns Hamas and Islamic Jihad Backed Suicide Attacks - Palestinian National Authority strongly condemned the explosion that took place in the city of Afula, west north of Jenin. See... PNA Strongly Condemns Explosion in Afula ALSO: Israeli Tanks and Suicide Bombs Halt Peace Efforts - The UNs Special Co-ordinator for the Middle East Process, Terje Roed-Larsen has called on the international community to push Israel and the Palestinian National Authority to embrace the Road Map as quickly as possible. See... UN Radio - Calls For Quick Action on Road Map ALSO: - Last chance for Middle East peace for 'long time'
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