Archive for: September, 2002

Ali Abunimah debates Daniel Pipes on BBC Radio Five Live

By Ali Abunimah Here is the transcript of a radio debate I had on Sunday morning with Daniel Pipes, the creator of the infamous “Campus Watch” website. As you can see, Pipes, who claims that his website is all part of legitimate debate, is not prepared to tolerate any criticism or examination of his own [...]

Two years of Intifada

The Palestine Monitor, A PNGO Information Clearinghouse September 28th, 2002 Today marks the second year of the current Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and the repression of the Palestinian people. During the last two years, the Israeli response to the Palestinian people’s struggle for internationally recognized right to self-determination and [...]

Manufacturing Anti-Semites

by Uri Avnery The first Israeli victim of Saddam Hussein is a Zionist myth on which we were brought up. It stated that Israel is a haven for all the Jews in the world. In all the other countries, Jews live in perpetual fear that a cruel persecutor will arise, as happened in Germany. Israel [...]

Wake Up And Smell The Occupation

By Sam Bahour* As Israel jumps from one self-made crisis to the next, the State of Israel itself is in an alarming condition.

SECURITY COUNCIL DEMANDS IMMEDIATE HALT TO ISRAELI MEASURES IN RAMALLAH

Security Council 4614th Meeting (AM, PM & Night) SECURITY COUNCIL DEMANDS IMMEDIATE HALT TO ISRAELI MEASURES IN RAMALLAH, ‘EXPEDITIOUS’ ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL TO PRE-SEPTEMBER 2000 POSITIONS Council Adopts Resolution 1435 (2002) By 14-0-1 Vote, with United States Abstaining

Artificial Crisis, Artificial Response

By Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada 24 September 2002 If it were to be judged only by its text, Palestinians should be largely satisfied with UN Resolution 1435 passed early on September 24 by 14 votes to 0 with the US abstaining. The resolution demanded that “Israel immediately cease measures in and around Ramallah, including [...]

Israeli forces kill nine people in Gaza, including a 14 year-old boy

LAW- The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights & the Environment 24 September 2002 Yesterday night, Monday 23 September, Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians in Gaza, among them seven civilians, and one child, also wounding twenty people, two of them critically.

Civil, non-violent disobedience campaign launched in defiance of Israeli-imposed curfews

The Palestine Monitor, A PNGO Information Clearinghouse 24 September 2002

Last Sunny Days

By Israel Shamir (based on talk given in Trondheim, Norway) On a better day, I would use an occasion and chat with you to my heart’s content, and what could be a better occasion than presentation of my book in the Norwegian translation. A talkative man from Jaffa, I would spin you endless yarns of [...]

Occupation: Only teddy bears sleep in peace

By: Walid Batrawi* As I sit in my Columbia, Missouri apartment, the phone rings. “I have very disturbing news,” the lady on the phone said in Arabic with a shaky voice. For a moment, I did not recognize the voice, but she continued.

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