Charley Reese Every now and then, the rumor arises that I have a Palestinian wife. Some of my kin were highly amused by a debate on that subject that was being conducted by letters to the editor in their local paper recently.
Genevieve Cora Fraser, Ramallah Online Columnist Israeli surveillance drones Above well below where Allah Is watching the People Mourn and shout defiance
Ahmed Bozaid, Palestine Media Watch The assassination of Hamas founder and spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassine, should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed Ariel Sharon’s actions and has paid minimum attention to how he operates. His logic is straightforward and impeccable: Israel is an overwhelming military power; its strongest ally is the [...]
Kathy K. Ramallah Online Columnist, March 22nd Dear Friends, With the assassination of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Yaseen, life in Hebron has returned to its more normal state: curfew where we live in H2 (under Israeli control) and I guess what are usually called “clashes” up in the newer part of Hebron, known as H1 [...]
Kathy K., Ramallah Online Columnist, March 17th, 2004 Dear Friends, I’m wide awake, so hopefully this letter will be more coherent than the last. I spent Friday cleaning, Saturday meeting visitors and making phone calls, Sunday travelling to Ramallah Friends Meeting and visiting with the women/girls at the Center of Peace for the Blind in [...]
Kathy K., Ramallah Online Columnist, March 9th, 2004 Dear Friends, Last Friday four of us attended a tree-planting action northwest of Jerusalem. The West Bank villages of Qattaana, Beit Sureek, and Biddo stand to lose 12,700 acres of farmland when Israel’s “Security Wall” cuts between their homes and their land. Along with Israeli and international [...]
Kathy K., Ramallah Online Columnist, March 11th, 2004 Dear Friends, We learned from a friend that the village of Beit Umar north of Hebron was under curfew following an explosion on the highway that runs past. The IDF bulldozed about 2 1/2 acres of grape vines and almond trees along the highway, rounded up the [...]
Kathy K. , Ramallah Online Columnist, March 23rd Dear Friends, Yesterday morning, on learning of the assassination of Sheikh Yassin, two of us went out on school patrol. Children were on their way to school, but soon many returned home, and one school had already closed by the time we reached it. On our way [...]
Samah Sabawi, RamallahOnline Columnist So, Israeli soldiers have stopped a teenaged boy named Abdo from becoming a suicide bomber at the Hawara checkpoint. How convenient! How absolutely brilliant! Overnight, the world wide condemnations of Israel for its brutal and foolish assassination of an old man in a wheel chair turned into outright condemnations against the [...]
UNHCHR, Report This afternoon the Commission concluded its consideration of the human rights situation in the occupied Arab territories, including Palestine, hearing a series of national representatives call upon Israel to cease human rights violations in occupied Palestine and to dismantle a security barrier built on Palestinian land.
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